On Wednesday, which was Madeleine's 1 week birthday...she opened her left eye and peeked at us! Of course, I jumped up an down and waved like a fool at her through the Plexiglass...yet I highly doubt she can see me with that 26 week old eye! Or she thought, "Who's that crazy lady waving at me and I hope she's not my nurse..." They did let me change her diaper today though, probably the cleanest, sweetest diaper I'll EVER change!!Madeleine has been keeping her nurses busy the last few days by trying to fight the ventilator and breath on her own. One one hand it's a good thing because she's a strong girl, on the another hand...her breathing skills via her underdeveloped lungs cause her to be "not good at it yet" as the nurses say, so they keep having to adjust her oxygen levels. They're keeping her relaxed to let those lungs grow so she can be "good at it" soon.
Her heart looks good on the scans and she has been losing all that fluid build-up from her initial trauma of coming into this world earlier than most people should have too. The poor baby was denied 3 months of the dark, warm, solitary confinement that she deserved! We'll have to make her a special crib that's nice and warm with dark curtains and one of those heartbeat players to give some of that lost heavenly peace back to her!
Her daddy sure is happy to see her, he can't wait to teach her how to use a cordless drill...(or maybe that's me). I'm actually looking forward to her hands getting big and strong so I can stick some crayons in there and get tons of art to plaster onto the refrigerator. But for right now, sleeping , healing and growing are what we want her to do the most!
When I saw her eye open I was thinking 'gotta get this!' Mady was almost too fast for me, just took a quick little peek then shut her eyes for the rest of the time. She kept scrunching up her face like she was concerned about something, so cute :)
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