Lazy Sunday

Faith is getting to be such a big girl at 6lbs 5oz! (doubled her birth weight) Each day I am amazed at the little progress she is making. We had a little set back this week with her hermatic level being low which caused her to be really sleepy. She was only eating about half of what she was eating the week before. The doctor decided to do another blood transfusion to help her. The good and bad of the transfusion is good that she has energy, bad because the transfusion shuts down her own abilitly to make more blood cells. This is only temporary and hopefully, when her body needs to make more blood cells in a month or so she will be older and stronger and will be able to handle it.

Faith is eating well more times than not. She is nursing pretty well when she is not tired. The bottle is easier for her, so I fear that she will begin to reject nursing because it takes more work. It will be nice when we are home and I can offer her food from me every feeding and not just when I can be at the hospital. I just hope it will not be "too late" because we missed the window.

Things can change on a dime, but we may have our little Honey Bunny home next week. I won't be heart broken if she does not come home next week because I want her to be as strong as she can be before she gets home, but I sure do miss her and wish she was home and I am getting really tired of being at the hospital.

God is good and we have so much to be thankful for!

1 Month

June 4th marked Faith's one month birthday. It is amazing to see how she has grown and changed. A true miracle! Tonight she weighed in at 5lbs 9oz. She started taking all her feeds by mouth last week...so "good-bye" feeding tube. :) Nursing is going well sometimes and not so well other times. She is also working on taking her supplement in the bottle. Breathing, sucking, swallowing is something that we can easily do and don't even think about it. Watching Faith eat reminds me that it is something we had to learn. She does pretty well, but does choke at times and drops her O2 levels.

My Honey Bunny does have some reflux and now that she is laying flat (not the incline like she has been doing since day one) it has really hit her good. It was SOOOOOO hard to leave her tonight knowing that as soon as we lay her down she will eventually get uncomfortable. When I am there to feed her I can hold her for awhile and that helps with the reflux. When I am not there the nurse feeds her and then has to lay her down so she can attend to the other babies she is responsible for and so then her reflux gets much worse. It just really hit me tonight that we had to leave her. Sniff, sniff...

Someday she will be home!

Today I got to help with Faith's bath for the first time. She really only was upset when we striped her down and put her in the water. Once she had her warm cloth on her she was relaxed (as you can see!). Her nurse washed her hair and I definately saw some curly hair. When her hair is dry it is really straight, so not sure if she will have curly hair like me.

My Comfy Spot

Faith likes to have her hand by her face. I knew this was going to be a comfy position for her when I saw her do it on the sonogram.