This picture was taken when Luke was on vacation in Rome. Visiting our "Papa" was a treat on his visit. It's actually sponsored by Luke's wonderful Godfather David. What a fun photo!
Well your prayers are working, both of the tests Luke had yesterday came back with no issues or concerns. Since Luke has been gaining a little more consistently the last several days and he's been down on his oxygen we are feeling he is making a positive trend and we'll just wait and see how he continues. He's been having better awake time the last few days too and just looks a little better.
I am working on my milk supply trying to get more milk and also beefing it up with more fat. Apparently I am still producing milk for a preemie, but now that Luke is nearing full term gestationaly my milk fat is lagging behind. A more protein and healthy fat diet will help. Good thing I love avocados!!
I thought I would also share a few pluses and minuses to our NICU life. Pluses are the wonderful nurses that care for Luke. In particular Luke has a primary for day and night, these two nurses follow Luke all along until he goes home. They both do such a good job and I always feel better when they are there because they know Luke and they know Jeremy and I really well. It just makes it reassuring for both of us when these two nurses are there watching over our precious miracle.
A minus is not all babies do make it home. We just lost one yesterday morning that we got to know. Please pray for little Emma, she was born with a complicated birth defect and fought hard to be here, but just couldn't pull it off.
And a plus is seeing babies go home. The first baby Luke was next to in the NICU was a little girl named Riley, born at 30 weeks on July 1st at 18oz in weight because she wasn't growing in the womb, is going home tomorrow at just over 7lbs.
It's impossible to be sheltered from the sad things in the NICU, but we just try to focus on what a miracle our Luke is to us and stay positive.
Melinda
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