Trust in You

Sarah had a good day yesterday.  We're down to only one bag of IV fluids.  We lost the bag of lipids yesterday.  We should lose the IV completely in a couple days.  We're just waiting on her feedings to get a little more substantial so she'll be ensured to get all the vitamins she needs.  They'll also be able to add all her medications and vitamins to the milk and do everything orally which will be great.

She's officially back off the jaundice lights as well.  The nurse seemed pretty confident that she was off them for good this time, but we'll see.  They teased us with taking her off them once before.  I'm not 100% positive that we're done with them.

She's also ready for her first bath today, so that should be exciting!  Since they went ahead and removed her umbilical stub, we should be able to fully submerge her in water instead of doing a sponge bath.  She still hasn't been thoroughly bathed since she was born since she's been hooked up to everything.

Our weight was 2 lbs. 13 oz. yesterday which is great!  Heading in the right direction!  As of this morning she was 2 lbs. 14 oz.  So proud of my growing girl!  They've increased her feedings up to 12 ml of milk at a time as well.  She's STARTING to not look as thin.  Her belly is poking out a little more, and the indentation that was in her chest (strictly from not having any fat filling her out) is pretty much gone at this point. 

They also think she'll be able to come off the nasal cannula in a day or two, as she's down to a 1 on oxygen through her cannula.  I'm not sure what the numbers really mean, but a 1 is about the last step before coming off.

I hate that we're almost off of EVERYTHING, but are still so far away from bringing her home.  I am encouraged that she's learning to suck on the pacifier a little more - maybe a good sign that she'll pick up on sucking on the bottle faster?  Who knows.  I'm hoping to be able to talk to the doctor in the next day or two and get his opinion on when we'll start trying a bottle.  Every nurse we've talked to seems to have a different opinion, and it's really the doctor's call.  Gaining weight and eating on our own...  It's all we have to do.  Eat and grow.  Eat and grow.

On a happier note, daddy got to kangaroo care with Sarah yesterday.  Here's a pic from their 45 minute session.  I love watching them together.