All together now

Sunday, March 7, 2010 7:10 AM, MST

Spent all day yesterday with my whole family for the first time. It was SO great! The girls just loved meeting their baby sister, and just wanted to hold her all day long. They were so sweet and tender with her. It just melted my heart!

Cassi

dy had a big day as well. She started nursing, which is going ok, but not fabulously yet. She is up to full feeds. And she got to have her PICC line removed!!! She is practically wireless now! The only thing she has is monitor leads and the pulse/ox monitor on her foot. She is taking all of her medication by mouth. She is eating well and even moving her bowels well! We were going to do her carseat test, but her carseat was too big. We may need to return her carseat and purchase one meant for babies 4 pounds and up instead of 5 pounds :S Urg. But if that is what it takes to get her home, then that is what it takes!

As long as she continues feeding well and shows all these positive signs, we may actually be out of here by tomorrow! That is our biggest prayer request right now, that her diapers continue to be good, her weight continues to go up little by little, (which it didn't last night, but she had lots of changes so they aren't too worried, even though she was down to 1956 again), and that there are no more complications. If everything continues as it has been, we will hopefully be out of here Monday!

Thank you all again for your prayers. I will continue to update this journal, even once we leave the NICU. We will be back in Children's for surgery sometime in the next 8 to 10 weeks, if all goes as planned. And I know we will need your prayers to get us through the next difficult phase of this journey, as well as just getting to a surgery date. Thank you for journeying along with us, celebrating the little triumphs, praying over the setbacks, and just supporting us.