Happy Valentine's Day - 1 Month Old

Emma with her finger wrapped around mine. I love when I am in there changing her diapers, she loves to grab our fingers! It is absoultely wonderful!
Sweet sleeping baby. You can definitely tell she is starting to fill out and gain weight!

Emma Claire's little toes

Emma turned 1 month old on Sunday! Her hand is a little fuzzy in this picture, as she is such a wiggle worm.

When we got to the hospital yesterday, Emma Claire (with the help of her nurse) had a valentine waiting on us. It was her little precious feet on a valentine day card and it was so sweet. I will have to take a picture of it and include on the next post.

Emma Claire is up to 1 lb 12 ounces (800 grams) and doing well. They did another sputum and blood culture last night as the doctor thought she was being symptomatic of an infection. Her WBC count was a little elevated (25,000), but not too high and not as high as it was with her first chest infection a couple of weeks ago. As a precaution, they started her on the antibiotics she has already been on and will await the results of the cultures to make sure she needs to stay on them or tailor them for a different type of infection. God is GREAT and will continue to heal our little sweet pea!

Emma Claire is now getting 14 cc every three hours. She gets her caffiene in her 11 AM feeding and gets 0.5 cc of vitamins in her 5 PM feeding. She is still having poopy and wet diapers, PRAISE GOD!! She continues to get her breathing treatments every 12 hours and is doing very well with those and that helps with her secretions. When the RT suctions her, they are getting thick white mucous and no signs of green or yellow which can be indictive of an infection. Her sodium and potassium were a little out of range, but as of yesterday, everything was back to normal. She had another chest x-ray this morning as the doctor's want to see what her secretions look like and to also look for infection. We pray this x-ray will be clear and she will be infection free.

She will have her 2nd Hep B vaccine today and then do a routine 30 day head ultrasound tomorrow. We continue to pray the ultrasound will be clear and she will continue to grow healthy and strong. We also pray if she does have a slight infection, they antibiotics they have her on will clear it up.

I know several people have mentioned to me that I see so calm and collective with all of this. By nature, I always take the positive approach to everything whether it be with work or just our lives. There is no good found to live in the negative and 'what if' side of life. God did not intend for us to live that way and I continue to know and have faith he gives us only what we can handle. Yes, by anyones measure this is a lot, but I have and know Emma Claire is receiving the best care possible and it was and is completely orchestrated by God. She is in his hands and he is our GREAT physician. PRAISE HIM for that!!! Every day when I wake up, I feel completely at peace and rest knowing I am shrouded by his mercy and grace every minute of every day. I know God hears and answers every prayer that is lifted up to him and Matt and I both see those answered prayers each day we see Emma living, breathing, being a wiggle worm, opening her eyes and grabbing our fingers every day! I cannot say it enough how GREAT our God is because he reveals it to us each and every day.

Matthew 17:20 ~....I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you. ~