Take a sad song and make it better....

Silly pre-yawn face

Day 42, 43, and 44

Weight- 950 grams
Oxygen- NASAL CANNULA!
Feeds- back to full volume finally!
Disposition- so comfy!

These past couple of days have been a God send.  Friday was a pretty uneventful day.  Prudence got tanked up with some blood and they decided to go ahead and do a full course of antibiotics.  So they put a PICC line in again and that was that.

Saturday, mid afternoon, update time from the NICU turned into the most incredible few moments.  Prudence had worked off her C-Pap which is nothing new.  What was new was, she didn't need it.  No alarms went off.  She did fine.

Little turd.

So they switched her to a nasal cannula and just decided to see how she would do.

And right now at about 36 hours, she is still on the nasal cannula.

Only 1 episode that she didn't fix herself and needed help on.

And she now takes her pacifier that has been dipped in a bit of sugar water and sucks on it like its going to go out of style any second.  This has been, the most beautiful glorious and uplifting time.  I have cried many times, all tears of absolute joy and happiness and I have lifted my hands up to praise God for his miracles more than once.

In other joyous news, my best friend also celebrated the birth of her first son!  We are so happy this little boy has made it safely into this world and cannot wait to meet him!

And so, the world keeps spinning, Prudence keeps growing, and joy continues to grow.  We are preparing for Lucy's birthday later this week.  And mine the next.  And Thanksgiving.  And Christmas.  We work, we sleep a tad, and we get housework done.  We spend time with Lucy and then we spend time with Prudence.  Its such a ridiculously busy season of our lives and yet its moving by so fast.  Over 6 weeks now in the NICU and I cannot imagine not going there.  I love some of the people we have had the pleasure to get to know and every now and then it occurs to me that I could work with these little miracles.  Its amazing to watch them grow and heal from such a rocky start and I have such a great respect for these angels in blue scrubs and what they do.  Of course, I come back to realize that I have no clue how to handle sick babies.........
Oh well

Good night and wishes of a thousand sugar paci's from micropreemie world....