Thursday, April 29, 2010

Quick Updates from the last 2 days

Sorry it has taken so long to update but we have been busy spending time at the hospital working on Emma with her feedings.  They changed her milk fortifier from 22 to 24 which allows for her to get more calories, but allows for her to take in less volume.  The big thing is she needs to eat and gain weight.  Jason and I were at the hospital yesterday(Wednesday) from 7:00 am to 11:00 pm only leaving 2 times and that was to go to the cafeteria for lunch and dinner for 30 minutes.  We are very dedicated at getting this eating thing down.  She did not do well eating for her nurse overnight.  This lead to the doctor to decide for us to room in with Emma tonight (Thursday).  Rooming in consists of us staying in a "hotel" style room located in the NICU.  Emma is still hooked up to her monitors, but only the nurses outside the room can see her stats.  This is another big and scary step for Daddy and I.  She is already doing much better eating at night being with Daddy and I.  There is talk that if she continues to eat well for us and gain weight that we might get to go home this weekend.  Please pray for our family that our first overnight together(we had to wait 4 weeks for this to happen) and Emma's feedings continue t go well.  May God Bless All of You! We will update about our first night tomorrow.