They call the NICU life a roller coaster. We’ve already experienced a free-fall (the reason I don’t do roller coasters in real life, btw), but today, we get to coast! So thankful for God’s gracious gift of a night of healing for our babe yesterday. She was doing so well getting oxygen in her body, that they stopped having to give her extra. Her ventilator is still doing almost all of the work of breathing for her, but there are times where she is starting to initiate her own breaths again, according to the monitor that she’s hooked up to. She was really good at that in the NICU, so we hope to get back to that. During rounds this morning, when multiple specialists get together to go over her day, and make plans and changes for the future, they discussed how well she’s doing, and that from a post-op standpoint, if she has another good day today, they would plan to return to the NICU to grow and continue recovering by TOMORROW!
I had the sweetest answer to prayer in the middle of the night last night. I woke up to pump, and noticed that her heart rate had increased, and she was making a sad face. Her nurse wasn’t nearby at the time, so I opened the little door to her isolette, and sang to her for the first time. Her heart rate went down and she stopped trying to fidget, it was an amazing feeling to discover that she can probably hear me (we don’t know for sure how good her hearing is yet), and that music might be a way to comfort her. There aren’t many ways that I can comfort her right now, so to see her respond with calming during the night to my singing and her playlist from my phone, fills my heart right up! ❤️🥰❤️😍
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