Monday, October 27, 2008

Day 44

Brynn decided that she wants to come home last night and went ahead and pulled out her own feeding tube! The nurses decided to go ahead and give her a try without her tube in and see how she does. If she is able to eat at least 30 ml at each feeding for several days (and continue gaining weight) then she is going to be coming home really soon. The other big news of the day was that she was moved out of her isolette into a "big girl bed" today. She is now in one of the open air beds that typical newborns are placed in at the hospital. She will have to prove that she can maintain her own temperature outside of her isolette. These are the last two steps among the many steps she had to achieve before coming home. It really seems as if we are going to be in the Care by Parent rooms really soon. Once again we are scrambling to get last minute things ready at home. We realized that we haven't even gotten the infant car seat out of the garage and cleaned up, and we don't even have a single bottle in the whole house! You'd think after 44 days we'd definitely be ready, but I think we haven't wanted to do all the final preparations because it might "jinx" us or something. We're heading off for her 9:00 PM feeding while Chelsea stays here with Riley for the evening. Let's hope there's good news about her last feeding!

3 comments:

Jeff said...

Brynn is an amazing little girl! We can't wait to meet her.

Unknown said...

Just checking in from the West Coast to let you know we are clinging to every word you write. Baby Brynn has an amazing mother and we are in awe of your strength and spirit. Sending you strength and light! ~Your cousins in Oregon

hannah said...

so excited for the open air bed!!!! that is just great!

i totally understand the not wanting to jinx anything.

you will look back on these days and be amazed at your strength.

as lisa said, you're an amazing mom!