April 14, 2008 Back to Children's for the Week

Bright and early, we were in Liberty Tax Services off of King Street getting our taxes done. Chad was our accountant, and he was a really nice person to work with. His customer service skills were great, and we felt very comfortable with talking to him. We told him about our little miracle and he shared pictures of his baby boy. After signing all the paperwork to process our taxes, he told us that there was no charge! We were so touched, and felt very blessed by him. He has a customer for life, and we will definitely always have good memories from his nice gesture.

We kissed Kaylee good bye and Larry dropped her off at school. That was difficult for me, but I know that she is in good hands for the week while we are gone. Kaylee is having a blast being away from home! She gets to have friends to play with around the clock, and she isn't even worried about calling me! I still send her little love text messages on her cell phone so she can read them at bedtime.

We finished up some cleaning, laundry, litter boxes (I could hear Larry gagging while he was cleaning them), and other little things around the house. We went to Wal-mart to get our list of things, and ate Subway for lunch. Larry and I stopped at one more place to get something very important to me: AN ELECTRIC BREAST PUMP! I will spare you the stories, but trust me...I am done with my manual one! Izzy rounded up her old pump and loaned it to me. Oh, that is going to make things so much easier on me. Larry will be able to sleep better too because I won't be shaking the bed trying to yank on my manual one in the middle of the night. lol.

We get to the hospital and our nurse said that we just missed someone who dropped off a gift to us. I went to lift it and it was so heavy that I had to have Larry get it for me. We open it up to find a huge assortment of snacks, drinks, advil, etc. There was even a gas card to help us with traveling back and forth! The card was beautiful, and to make it even more touching, the gift bag was from a family that we haven't met yet! Wow, that was moment that took both of us back. How special are we to have that happen! Thanks so much!

Our little baby is on a mission to get out of this hospital! When we got there, the nurse told us that she was given breast milk and took it like a pro! It was time for her to eat again, and they asked me if I wanted to feed her. I thought they were going to show me how to put the milk in her OC tube, but they handed me a bottle with a nipple on it! They said that she sucked down her first feeding from a nipple earlier, and our mouth's fell open. So I got even more excited to feed her...and yea, she wouldn't do it for me! So we put it in her tube and watched it go down like that. They also said that she was looking around all day long, and crying her little head off...but she didn't do that for us either. She was tired and wanted to relax in my arms, and that is okay with me.

Update:
SHE WAS FINALLY GIVEN BREAST MILK! (5 cc's every 6 hours)
No dirty diapers for 2 days
She is still on her vapotherm, but on minimal settings
She cries when she gets mad :)
She is opening up both her eyes and looking around
Extremely stable!

We left the hospital with the Fortney's and they treated us to Ruby Tuesday's for dinner. That was a great surprise! Looking at the whole day, we were blessed by everyone we came in contact with. God is amazing!