Gracie, 10 Weeks Old Today!!

70 DAYS......that's how long we have been here.....whew!! We are happy to even be able to celebrate 10 weeks with our little girl. She is doing better and better. She has had quite an eventful day today. Last night her IV failed so they had to put another one in her other hand...poor baby. Then this morning, they put a PICC line in her other arm because they were unable to get it into the arm that her IV was in. They are weaning her down on her methadone, they have gone down on her oxygen...she is on an 1/8 of a liter now and doing well. I will be SO thrilled if she actually goes home without oxygen, but I think that may be wishful thinking. She still seems to be a little uncomfortable from her skin graft, as well she should. I have heard from several people that the graft site hurts the most out of the whole procedure. They plan on taking off or changing the wound vac tomorrow. But the biggest news of the day is that they took her NJ tube (feeding tube to her intestines) out and put a new one into her stomach (NG tube) which she absolutely HATED by the way. They decided that while she was in the PICU, they might as well just try to see how she does with an NG tube. They will do continuous feeds to her stomach and then if she tolerates this well, they will start bolus feeds which means they will give her food over a 30 minute period every 2-3 hours. She has been on the NG feeds for a little over 2 hours and so far she seems to be tolerating it well. They are going to keep her in the PICU tonight because she is on NG feeds now and because she has to be on the wound vac until tomorrow. So another full night of sleep for me!! I need to really start savoring my full nights of sleep because they are about to come to an abrupt end! There is still talk of us going home next week sometime, so we are gearing up.

p.s. Thanks again Brytten for the blanket (and to your sister in law for making it!) I get SO many comments on it. I call it her mink coat. There are a ton of people wondering where you got the cute material? Anyway, thanks again, I love it!