Peanut loves Belly Time!

A few days ago, they took Madeleine's tanning bed away and covered her isolette with blankets so it's nice and dark for her. She likes it. Now we can peek at her little face anytime we want without blinding her with light!

We're all still riding the NICU roller coaster, today was mostly ups and steady glides...her oxygen has been weened down 10% or so...which means the nitric oxide is most likely helping her.

She still LOVES to sleep on her belly...she seems to digest her feedings really well in this position. Today they fed her a little, and 3 hours later it was still in there, plus a little more which they said was stomach juices. Yum. They went ahead and fed her again...and when they turned her on her belly, an hour later, all of the food was out of her stomach. That means she gets more food! Even if they have to stop her feeds to let her digest...they're still giving her fats and vitamins through her IV...so she's always eating, just not getting the GOOD STUFF!

She got an ultrasound on her abdomen today, which we haven't gotten the results back from yet. She did NOT like this! The gel and the wand made her upset and she would desat down to 67...which also made her mommy very upset too! I just tried to tell myself it would all be fine, and kept drawing trees. After it was over, was when she got "belly time"...and of course, she was fine.

All the ladies holding and feeding their babies around me make me seriously jealous! I can't wait to get my hands on her...but I think it's going to be a long time...it feels like forever ago that I even had her, and it's only been 16 days ago!