Progress!

Reese has made awesome progress since I updated yesterday morning!  Even though we are just sitting around in a hospital, I feel like I haven't had time to even write on the blog--so she has accomplished a lot since I posted last :)

She came off her CPAP (mask) around 3:00 yesterday afternoon, and started on 3 liters of air through the tube to her nose.  By this morning, she was down to 1 liter of air at 21% oxygen, which is the same as room air.  She has been keeping her stats up great!

She still had a feeding tube in yesterday and last night, and they started giving her formula every 3 hours, which she tolerated well.  By the time Jason showed up early this morning, she had pulled out her tube (I'm telling you--she's fiesty!), so they let him bottle feed her at 9:00.  She did great! We will continue to bottle feed her every 3 hours and hope that she keeps taking all her milk so that they don't have to put the tube back in.

Her bilirubin count is also up, which is apparently common in preemies, so she was under a light yesterday.  Today they switched her to a blanket so she can be wrapped up, which she likes.

Here she is getting her first "bath" last night...we wiped her down and she was not too happy about it.

If only Harper was here for a family pic!

It feels SO good to hold her after all of this time.  I can't get enough of her.  Harper will probably have my whole house torn up when we get home because I won't be able to put this baby down and corral her :) 

I get discharged today, so Jason and I are planning on going home for a night.  I haven't seen the outside of this hospital in a month, so I am anxious to go but yet also sad to leave Reese behind.  I know she is in great hands, and we will be back tomorrow.  We are very much hoping to be home as a family by the weekend, but we'll see how things go.  She has definitely turned a corner, though, and we pray she continues to improve rapidly! 

We love all the prayers being said for her and cannot thank you enough for your support!