Just wanted to give a quick update on our little Livi. We are going on almost 3 weeks in the NICU but she has done great the entire time. The biggest struggle with a baby as small and young as her is they can't quite get the suck-swallow-breath motions down together and eat enough on their own. Just this past week it has all come together though and she is on the fast track out of that place! She's up to 5lb 2oz and taking all her feedings without a tube!!
If all goes according to plan we should be able to bring her home Saturday morning! A few last feeding tests and then she will be all ours. Simultaneous "Yay" and "Yikes". Life as we think it would be has been on hold the past 3 weeks and we are anxious to have her home so we can get on with it. Things might even be less hectic then! We can only hope.
Ari is doing amazing. Makes everybody sick when they see how good she looks after just having a baby. Driving to and from the hospital dozens and dozens of times for feedings hasn't weakened her a bit. She has stayed so strong despite how much is being asked of her.
Mo continues to be enamored with his "Baby Sis" and is giddy each time we take him to see her. Just this past weekend they let him hold her for the first time and it was hilarious to watch how much he kissed her and would rub the top of her head saying that he was "petting her mane" -horse obsession reference there.
While it has been hard for all of us these past weeks we recognize how blessed we truly are. The support from everybody has been essential to us making it through each day. We have learned new levels of patience and love.
So that's the deal. Hopefully when Livi is home we can free her of a few of the tubes and wires she is hooked up to and get some better pictures. I always say she is too pretty to have the oxygen and feeding tubes taped to her face, but oh well its for her own good and for only a little while longer.
