One month old!

Baby Aurora Skye is one month old today!!!!  Praise God for this little life and the one month we have been blessed by her so far.  She is doing well.  She has told the nurses and docs the past few days that she needs the weening of the meds to be slowed, so that is what they are doing; holding off for a bit and just keeping the meds steady.  She is way down from where she used to be though and is off all heart medications. The ventilator is still helping her breathe.  She is up to 2mL/hour of Mom's milk.

Dad was nervous about holding her, so he didn't until today; so I captured his first ever hold of his daughter!  The nurse basically made him by telling him there was nothing to it and I think he was then glad!!

Here are the one month old pictures from today!!

Better Day!

Today was a better day!  She is doing well.  I don't know any more details, but hopefully I'll know more tomorrow after my visit!

Hard day

Today was a hard day for Skye. She's having a bit of a hard time getting the oxygen she needs and her gasses aren't looking very good.  That's all I know this evening.

In Mamma's arms!!!!

Coral got to hold Skye for the first time yesterday!!!!

Sunday, the tube in her stomach came out on it's own.  They wanted to watch her for a bit to see if she needed it back in, but I guess it was fine, since she got to be held for the first time on Monday at 25 days!

Nothing to note from today.

I will be sure to get pictures of the new snuggle time on Saturday!  :)

I also made it easier to post comments on the blog by taking off the "word verification".  Someone told me they were having trouble, so now it should be easier/work.   If you don't have an account you just put in your comment and click the "anonymous" ID, and then make sure to write your name in the commment box so I know who it is from! :)

23 days old!

Our visit today was filled with a bunch of good news!

1. She is breathing on her own, most of the time!!!!!  This is huge.  She is still on the ventilator, but it lets her breath as long as the number is above 45.  If it drops below that, then the machine does it for her.  This happens mostly when she is asleep, but when awake, she's doing it herself.

2. She is eating Mommy's milk!!! This is another big thing.  She is given a "tiny trickle" (1cc/hour) through a tube that goes through her nose.  Finally, she can actually get something real instead of just nutrients via IV!!

She still has a tube draining fluid out of her abdomen from the surgery.  When that is gone, she can be held.   I think that is the next big stage!

Here are pictures from our visit today!

Daddy's back!

Slow & Steady....

Not much to report other than that they are slowly decreasing the medications and oxygen, not too fast, and she is handling it well!

We plan to visit again on Saturday!

Off Oscillator!!!

The Oscillator is the "new breathing" machine that I talked about in the last post; and she is off it and doing great!!

She's back on the ventilator, which is the "old breathing machine" that I talked about before.

It's progress; slow and steady is what we like!!!

And, Ethan is coming back this weekend for an extened length of time!!!