Thank You

I want to let everyone now greatful I am for the cards, phone calls, text messages, voice messages, ect.. I'm sorry that I haven't called or contacted back. I live in the hospital. We have to have our phones turned off so I don't get the messages till late at night when I go back to the apt. By then I'm so drained. But I appreciate all the messages I get. I love you all! I'm so greatful for your prayers and blessing that go out to Ella and my family everyday. I feel every prayer at work as I sit and watch my baby grow and mature into a beautiful baby girl. She truly is a miracle. A gift from God. You don't realize how close you are to him till you look into the eyes of my amazing little girl. I thank the lord everyday that he chose me to be her mother. Step by step, day by day, is how we live our life now. I don't know what tomorrow will bring us. But I know whatever it is that we have an amazing support system cheering us on. Thank you.

Rough Days

These last couple of days have been pretty rough, Ellas lungs are giving her some trouble. She reached to 100% oxygen. Leaving no room for emergency. Her lungs are very damaged with a lot of scar tissue. The vent helps her breath but at the same time damages the new lung tissue that tries to grow, making it harder and harder for her to breath. They tried a dose of surfactent. The doctor didn't think that it would work because her lungs are so bad but decided to try it anyways because it has little side effects. Unfortunately it didn't work. So our next thing to try was steroids. They gave a dose of that to her Thursday morning at 3am. Later that morning they were already starting to work. She came down on her oxygen from 100% to 80% . We were so happy that it was working for her. All day Thursday she kept going farther down on her oxygen. Tonight she was at 52% and doing awesome. Doctor McAdams wants her to continue doing good so he can get her off the vent and onto seapap. One of the side effects is that the steriods make it harder to tell if she has an infection of any kind. I hope and pray she won't get anything. She is 29weeks and weighing in at 1lb 14oz. Almost to 2lbs. YAY! For high calorie formula mixed with breast milk. We can finally tell she's growing. She also gets her picc line taken out tonight. I'm so greatful for prayer that the steriods are working for her and helping her. She's such a little fighter.

weekend update

I have a small update! Ella's been doing good this weekend. She's still having problems with her lungs. Their really immature so its going to take time for them to grow. But they've increased her feeds. They give her an extra boost with a high calorie formula along with my breast milk to help her grow faster. She's been smiling a lot. The nurses have been trying to get pictures of her smiling but she gets camera shy when they reach for the camera. Her nurse today was telling me that babies her age don't smile yet. So the nurses get all excited when she smiles at them while they do her cares. It's so cute. It reasures me that she's happy in her new world. She's 28 weeks this week. But she's as fisty as a 2 year old. She's doing good. She's stable and that's what we want.

My lil easter bunny is doing much better today. Thank you all for your prayers! She's proof there is a father in heaven that loves us.

She has such cute eyes!

Day 1 post surgery

Last night was a night I never want to relive. We came close to losing my baby girl. We were up for 25 hrs straight till she made a turn for good. She's stable now!

Surgery Day

Ella's surgery went perfect today. The doctor said that the next few days are going to be really rough so all we have to do is pray she will get through them.

Ella in her little isolet.

This was all the stuff that was hooked up to her the night after her surgery. One vent, one medi vent, 9 medi iv's 2 nurtri iv's 1 blood trans iv, one therometer prob, one tiny blood pressuer cuff and one heart meter prob.

Surgery

Ella has surgery tomorrow morning. Please pray that everything goes good. Having faith is easy to say but hard to do.