Today however has been so much better. We couldn't go back to see her in the CICU until 9am. We were there at 8:45. We are supposed to only get about 20 minutes back there, but the nurses have been great and give us extra time. At 9am she had less tubes and IV's but still on the ventilator. We went home for lunch and to play with Taylor til our next visit at 1pm. On the way they called to tell us they took her off the ventilator. So when we got there she was still groggy but hardly hooked up to anything.
They let me hold her and then feed her a bottle! It was the first time she had any milk since last Thursday. She drank one ounce and then had a great big burp. They let us stay with her a whole hour! So now they will watch to make sure her digestive system is working and give her some more milk. It's all breast milk and they have a supply of what I've been pumping for her. (sorry guys that are reading this. :) I have to say I think I was a dairy cow in my former life! Really it's just amazing how God makes it so our bodies can supply the perfect needs for a baby. I am ready to stop all this pumping and just feed her myself though.
Hopefully tomorrow we'll be in a room on "the floor" which means Wes and I would get to stay with her around the clock. Don't know yet how all that works or how long we have to stay there, but everything seems to be progressing nicely.
We are very tired and emotionally rung out. Ready to go home and have this as a distant memory. I'm hoping that Taylor won't remember any of this but having a great time with his friend Parrish and that mommy fell and hurt her knees. :)
Thanks again for all the prayers! We praise God for holding us up during this trying time.
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3 comments:
We can't wait to see you two and little Lilly on Friday! I thought of you so much yesterday, and the tears I knew you were shedding. I am so grateful that all of you can now be on the mend.
glad to see everything (or read)is going well... don't worry about offending anyone with breastfeeding, God made those for that reason!!! I remember my 5 year old (then 3) asked if I was going to turn into a cow once her brother was born, right in the midd of the grocery store... it was humiliating to have to say well, sort of... then she burst into the loudest crying and screaming because she didn't want me to be a cow :) hehehehehe... anyway, I saw the pic of you holding Lilly on Wes' facebook, it warmed my heart. You both have great strength and you know as well as I do that God is good, ALL THE TIME! Continue to keep your thoughts happy ones and soon it will all be a distant memory. As for Taylor, he probably won't ever remember :)
Praise God! Be glad that you are a "dairy cow"...the most I was ever able to pump with my first baby was 1/2 ounce (which I kept as a trophy in the freezer for 3 years!) What a wonderful moment it will be for you when you get to pitch the pump and nurse your little one again. God is totally awesome in His equipping of us women to meet the needs of our little ones! Feel God's presence today--He is right there!
Love,
Teresa Messick
www.tgmessick.blogspot.com
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