Our sleeping angel!!!

This is definitely my favorite pic! It was after the bottle and she is very full and sleepy...it is blurry of course but look at that cute tongue!!! lol

Our pretty baby with no tape on her face!!!

Big girl's very first bottle!

Her face is red from the tape...we dont like tape!

The first time we have seen Bayley without tape on her face in over a week.

Today was overall a good day for Bayley. I called at 5am and she had gained back to 1330 grams which is 2 lb 15 oz. She has grown from 15 inches long to 15.5 inches long. She had an increase in her residual overnight but today during the day it decreased. Dr. Mena decided to take advantage of the decrease in residual and put her on the lowest dose of the fortifier. Donna, her nurse today, explained that it was empty calories to boost the calorie content from 20 calories per serving to 22 calories. The will eventually boost it to 24 calories per serving. She is up to 23 ml of milk per feeding. Her billireuben dropped from 10.7 to 10.2. It isnt going down as quick as they would like but it is going down so they arent overly concerned. I forgot to mention a few days ago that they took her IV out so we are no longer on any additional fluids. I got to do kangaroo care for the 1st time today. We had 30 minutes of just me and Bayley. I have to say it was pretty much heaven. Bayley is 32 weeks today and she got her very first bottle feeding today. She did really good. She got it at 5:30 so thank goodness Brian was there because I was pretty anxious to say the least. Premies dont know to suck, swallow and BREATHE...that is pretty important. lol She did good though. The monitors only dropped a few times which about made me stroke out but the nurse was sooo calm and so good with Bayley. The nurse seemed to not be worried which helped me relax a lil. Before the bottle Bayley had pulled her feeding tube out AGAIN so Donna took the tape completely off her face which was so exciting because we havent seen her without it in over a week. She has such a pretty little face. When Donna first tried to give her the bottle Bayley was more interested in her monitors and looking around. She was cracking us up. She is so alert at times. She took the whole bottle and didnt have to be fed any of it through the feeding tube. There are still so many things she has to get through but we will take today as a small victory and hope tomorrow goes just as good. Sydney called me tonight. I miss her so much it isnt even funny. You never realize how much u talk to someone until they arent here lol. All of the nurses asked about Sydney today...they missed her too lol. Sydney is definitely the photographer of the family because the pictures from today are pretty blurry. lol I cant wait until she is home again. More tomorrow.