(Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6) August 3, 2006 Elora’s surgery went well. She was supposed to go in between 1 & 3… then at 11:30 we get a call as we were driving down- asking if we were on our way because they’d probably be starting in about an hour. Then the [...]

(Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5) July 28, 2006 Elora turned one month old today! I made cupcakes for the NICU staff to celebrate. When we got to the hospital, she was on Cpap… but wasn’t really liking it too much, so even though her blood gasses came back fine, they decided to reintubate [...]

(Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4) July 17, 2006 Last night Elora wasn’t doing that great. They didn’t even want me to touch her because her stats kept dropping whenever they did her touch times. Today we got a call from the doctor- they want to do surgery on her intestines for the meconium plug [...]

(Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3) July 9, 2006 Elora got her first ‘taste’ of breastmilk- they gave her 1cc in her tube. They’re not sure she’s digesting it well… so it might be too early, but I think it was great that they tried. They were unable to get any fluid during her [...]

(Part 1 and Part 2.) July 4, 2006 Good news & not so good news today. First, the good news- Elora finished with her phototherapy for jaundice today- so that means I got to see her lil face finally without her eyes covered!  She weighed 1 lb 3 ounces today. She was peeking open her [...]