Daddy's Little Girl

Lots of good changes over the last two days!! Charlotte was taken off the paralyzing drug the other day and she seemed quite calm and rested afterwards. They started feeding her breast-milk again - 1cc every 3 hours, and that amount should start to increase soon. And the best one of all - they took her off the ventilator yesterday and she's breathing on her own! Fingers-crossed that she's able to stay off this time!

Right after they took the ventilator tube out and before they put the oxygen tube up her nose I was able to get a pic of what our little peanut looks like tube-less. Man, was she ever pissed off that she had been woken up for this! It appears as though she has my nose, but beyond that I'm not very good at picking out similar body features. (And see that guy holding Charlotte's head? That's Ed, my acupuncturist. He doubles as a Respiratory Therapist at Loyola. Seems quite fitting that he helped us to have Charlotte and now he's helping her get better.)

We were going to wait until today to hold her, so as to not overstimulate her, but the night nurse saw no need to wait. So, last night Brian got to hold his little girl for the first time. I can tell that she's already got him wrapped around her little, itty-bitty finger. Look at her - she's already trying to figure out how she can get daddy to buy her a plasma TV for her crib.

Yesterday was a very good day! I'm looking forward to many more days like that.