Under the Lights

Yesterday Siena had to go under the lights. But another miracle happen... she was only under them for less than 12 hours. We almost missed seeing her with her cute goggles because when we got there they took her out from under them. I have never known a baby to recover so quickly and come out from under the lights within so few hours. She is a little miracle to me.

So here is an update now:

• Siena is not needing any oxygen anymore. She is just breathing regular air.
• She doesnt need her incubator heated anymore and infact when we left the hospital today they said they were going to change her to a cot.
• She is off all her monitors other than one to just keep checking her heart rate and oxygen levels. She has to have this until she comes home for safety precautions.
• She is on 2 hourly feeds of 28 MLs. And even better than this was that she was rooting yesterday for her feed so I got a chance to Nurse her. She got really tired after a few minutes and we had to give her feed to her down her tube. This was such an awesome experience. I loved it!

I imagine that she will be in the NeoNatal unit for no longer than 2 more weeks. I am so grateful for this. I love my little princess and it is so difficult everytime I have to leave her. Tonight as I write this I am wishing that I could be with her holding her, feeding her even just staring at her. When we are not there she is just in a room on her own until she needs something doing and it makes me so sad to picture her just laying there in the dark alone.

As a side not my wound is now infected (Yipee) and I am on antibiotics. I had the last of all my staples out today too. Unfortunately for me my skin had started to grow over most of them so what should have been a virtually painless exercise of having them taken out turned into a palm sweating, face cringing experience. YUCK! I am so glad that is flippin over with. I have been trying to wean myself off the pain meds and am now only taking Tylenol and Ibuprophen a couple times a day. Today I have only taken them twice. Also I have been having to give myself injections in my tummy for blood clots and I only have one more to take. Cant wait for them to be gone.

So I think that is it. I feel weepy so I am going to go. I love each and everyone of you and am so grateful for your prayers, for your kind thoughts and words which give me strength. I am grateful to my Heavenly father for this experience.