Wednesday, January 19, 2011

1 week

today at 12:44pm, Adi will officially be one week old! SO hard to believe it's already been 7 days with her - feels like I love her enough to have been with her for a lifetime!
Yesterday was a good day - Dan was able to leave the office early and come work from the Hospital for the afternoon, give Adi a bottle and spend some time together - definitely refreshing for me! After her afternoon feeding, Adi wouldn't fall back asleep, so the nurse called me to see if I wanted to give her a bath - my first one.  It was a success! The nurse warned me that she'd probably let out some significant yells, since most newborns aren't fans of bathtime - but Adilyn did great, other than some squirming.  When we shampooed her full head of hair, she kind of closed her eyes and relaxed in my hand - maybe she'll be a spa treatment kind of girl when she gets older :)  I didn't get any pictures during the bath, since I was giving it - but here's one of her right after, all bundled up, clean, fed and content!
This morning, the Pediatrician let me know that she had another breathing spell last night - this one only lasted about 20 seconds and she came out of it herself, but still cause for concern.  They want to watch her a couple more days and are talking about conducting a 12 hour scan - which would record all of her vitals throughout a 12 hour period to see if they can figure out why these spells keep happening (basically determine if she has Central Apnea or apnea of prematurity - which would ideally correct itself with a little more time).
I'm thankful for the great medical attention we have for Adilyn and that the Drs. want to identify the root cause before sending her home - when we don't have beeping monitors to tell us what's going on.  We're just praying that the spells stop and the Drs are confident that it won't happen again - if that means we have to stay here longer, I guess I just need to get some more clean clothes and camp out.  We love our little girl so much and just want her to be healthy and safe - even if that means she can't come home quite yet.
More to come -- one day at a time.

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