Updates

Sorry we didn't get a chance to update last night. Long days at the hospital tend to lead to us being worn out by the end of the evening. As you know Emma has had a lot of big changes occur in the last few days. For everyone who has asked, Emma did poop yesterday before the suppository had to be administered. Guess she heard them talking and decided she would go ahead and get it out. She has since gone two more times.
Today was the biggest day of all - Mommy and Daddy got to hold our precious baby girl. We are on day 16 in the NICU and it finally happened. I let Daddy hold her first since I did get a few seconds right after she was born. Daddy held her for a bit and then handed her off to me. Neither one of us can explain the joy we felt to finally hold our baby girl and cuddle with her. Daddy held her again this morning because he had to leave to go pick up Cloey for the weekend. I will be going back in later this afternoon and holding her again. She is right now on two different types of breathing machines that they are alternating between. The one is the CPAP and the other is the nasal cannula(the one up the nose that you think of most of the time when people get oxygen). The nasal cannula is set up as a form of CPAP but not as strong as the actual CPAP machine. She is on the nasal cannula for 3 hours and then goes back on to the CPAP machine for awhile. They are doing this because she has been given lots of support to breathe through all of this and they want to ease her into the transition. She had a bit of a fever last night, higher heart rate and still is having tremors. Her CBC looked good and didn't show any infection so they are thinking that she is going through withdrawal. They will continue to monitor the HERO program that she is on. It is a study they are doing. It follows her heart rate and picks up any trend that might be a sign of infection before other things develop. Right now it looks good. They will continue to do x-rays periodically rather than daily to monitor the small amount of fluid that is beneath her left lung(where the bowel used to be located before it was moved). Her arterial line in her right wrist quit working so they took it out this morning. So now she just has the PICC line (special IV line) in her left leg., a