Friday, July 19th

Today was another day for ALL of the feelings.  We had some amazing moments!  Like the 2 hour cuddle time I got with Annelise today to make up for the interrupted one we had yesterday.  She was breathing so easily with her cpap cannula today, even when we had to move her around to give her a bath!  Our friends blessed our socks off with a photo shoot by a photographer who is also a nurse... perfect for this setting! ... who came bearing gifts of Starbucks!  Thank you friends! We had the best time, it went way more smoothly than I was anticipating.  Thank you Lord for a good breathing day!❤️. The night, however, has not been so great for breathing.  Kevin and I were just about to go to the Rainbow house when Annelise started retracting and working really hard to breathe.  Her o2 levels wouldn’t stay up, and the Respiratory Therapist was talking about intubating her if it didn’t get better.  I tried holding her like I did this afternoon when her breathing was calm, but that only seemed to help for about 5 minutes... we sat and prayed together, then when it looked like she wasn’t getting any better, and her numbers dropped lower, the nurse put her back in bed, and Annelise calmed and her numbers went way up!  She found the sweet spot!  Hooray!  Her breathing calmed, and everyone tiptoed away to not wake the baby!
In between all the respiratory issues and photo shoot fun, we got some special visitors!  Kevin’s parents joined us and met their granddaughter for the first time!
It was a really full day.  Can’t wait to get back to our little love tomorrow!💖😁💖🌷💖💕