Weight: 2.56kg

Last night, Arlene spent her first night away from her mother at the NICU. Today she had a full blood work done, urine test, liver test, TORCH, and had visits from the nutritionist doctor and growth and development doctor. After observation, doctors concluded that her sucking reflex needs to be improved with physiotherapy. In addition, there seems to be a layer of soft tissue in her throat that prevents her from swallowing normally. Therefore tomorrow the ENT doctor will perform an endoscopy to hopefully find the source of the problem. We hope Arlene can be moved out of NICU tomorrow into a regular room, so that mother and baby can be reunited.