First Mother's Day

My first Mother's Day was a little different than I expected in many ways. For one, I never planned being in a NICU 700 miles away from home. Also, I didn't expect to have a migraine that kept me in bed until 6:00 in the evening. However, I did not let it get me down. I rested until I was better and finally came to see my beautiful little one around 10:00 at night. When I got here I saw that she had made me a card. Notice how loooooong her fingers are. (Her toes are just as long.)



I gave her a bath and got her settled and snuggled in before I left.

She has gotten to where she moves so much in bed. We have to put up a bumper or else she is hanging out the rails waving to everyone walking by.

I haven't updated in a few days mainly because there hasn't been much change. On some accounts that is very good. Let's see, she is 11 pounds now. Last night after we weighed her I went over to the conversion chart to see what her weight is in pounds and she isn't even on there because it only goes to 11 pounds. She has cute little rolls on her legs and arms now. Her breathing has been really great lately. She has gone from having several desats an hour in the beginning to having maybe one a day now.

Her infection around her gtube is getting much better. She will finish this round of antibiotics on Friday and the plan is to attempt the gtube advancement into a g/j tube then. Please pray that it works this time. Once it is in place, then we will just need to monitor a few days to make sure all is well and then we can start planning discharge.

Everything else has been really good lately. No noticed seizure activity, as I said respiratrion has been good, no more reflux or vomiting. Just a gassy little girl who has her days and night mixed up. I will be working on trying to get that turned around before we go home.

The jury is still out on one new development....a couple of her nurses have mentioned they think her hair is getting a redish highlight to it. I say it is definitely getting lighter. In some light it does look a little redish. I guess she gets that and her height from her Uncle Lee. We will have to wait and see if she turns into a silly ham like him and cousin Trista.

Teryn's friend Paige gave her a swing to use while she is in the hospital. Paige didn't like it and Teryn is still trying to make up her mind as you will see from the video:

One new toy that she does seem to like is her mobile. She likes watching it until she catches sight of mommy off to the side: (Her hair looks a little redish here?????)