Update-Monday

Amarie is out of ICU! :) 24 hours after they extubated her she was transferred to a regular floor. It is so nice to have her out of ICU and to be able to stay with her all the time now (though I can't wait to get home...the constant beeping of machines and staff coming in and out will drive a person crazy!) Amarie is one month old today- hard to believe it. Its kind of sad because we have spent that whole first month (except for three days) in the hospital. She is doing really well though. She is so awake and loves to look around (we still can't get over how exciting it is to see her with her eyes open..we missed that so much!) She is still hooked up to a lot of monitors and is also still on tube feedings through her nose. She had a swallow study today to see if she would be able to start eating orally but she didn't do very well with that and was getting a little bit of the milk down her airway. So she will have to go home on the tube feedings and then they will repeat the swallow study in a month. That was really disappointing because I was hoping she would be able to start nursing. Another month of pumping :/ They are going to repeat the CT scan of her brain tomorrow morning so we are praying that the blood clot and bleeding have improved. Depending on how the CT looks and how long it takes to get all the equipment we need to go home with, the "plan" is that we will be able to go home towards the end of the week. That would be the best mother's day present to be able to take my baby home!!! (I'll post lots of new photos tomorrow when Jason brings the laptop)