Goodbye Oxygen Support!

* Emma is now breathing completely on her own! No more oxygen support! She seemed very happy to have the little tubes out of her nose, because she sure was smiling in her sleep a lot while I was holding her this afternoon!

Goodbye oxygen!

We will get those sticky things that held the tubes off her face during her next bath :)

* She had originally lost quite a bit of weight after the first day of draining all of the fluid in her belly, and now she is gaining it back! She weighs 5 lbs 11 oz now!

* She is now being fed 8 ml of breast milk during each feeding, and she is digesting almost all of it! They started off only giving her 2 ml, then 4 ml, so this is a big jump! 8 ml still isn't really enough to challenge her body and reveal if her feeding will cause her body to start accumulating fluid again, meaning the cause of her hydrops could be lymphatic (the dangerous diagnosis), but we are so proud of all that she has accomplished in such a short amount of time!

* Emma had an ultrasound of her head and abdomen yesterday and all results came back normal. The radiologist had originally found a spot in her brain where she might have had a bleed a few months back while still in my belly, but they are confident that it is nothing to worry about at this point. They also found a spot on her liver that may have been an enlarged blood vessel but again, nothing to worry about now!

We are so overwhelmed at all that God is doing through Emma Grace! Our hearts are overflowing with love for this precious little miracle, and of course for her big sister Laney Faith who has been such a trooper while hanging out at the hospital for hours at a time! Just about everyone who passes by comments on what a happy girl she is. She hasn't been able to meet Emma yet, but we know she will be such a great big sister!

In all of the chaos after Emma was born, I forgot to mention how God revealed himself to us just the day before I went in for my C-section. In my very first post on this blog I wrote how every time I drove to a doctor's appointment, I would hear the song "Whom Shall I Fear" by Chris Tomlin. Well, we were at church the day before Emma was born and guess what song they sang? That's right! Justin and I just smiled at each other and I couldn't help but let a few tears slip out knowing that God was speaking to us in that very moment, telling us that He was right by our side, and Emma Grace is in His mighty hands! He is so faithful!

Snuggling with mommy!