here<\/a> to see all of them.<\/p>\nMy Mom, sister Debbie and niece Madison will head back to Michigan tomorrow. It\u2019s been great having them here since it was such a last minute trip for them. It\u2019s hard to plan a trip when it can happen at any given moment. I really missed my Dad not being here but am grateful to have so many others. The boys send their love out to him (they both told me to make sure I put that on the website).<\/p>\n
We were able to sneak Madison into the room today so that was great for everybody. We passed her off as my daughter from a previous relationship and had her wear the \u201cnew baby\u201d hat. Nobody questioned it.<\/p>\n
Brenda had a big day. She made great progress on both breast feeding as well as using the pump, she walked down the hall and back, took a shower, was taken off of the IV and other monitors and had a real meal. Her blood levels have shown signs of recovery so she will not need a blood transfusion after all.<\/p>\n
Max is doing great and able to feed from a bottle now, and will breast feed fine once the milk starts coming in. He spent most of the day with us in the room and visited with people.<\/p>\n
Andrew is doing great as well and is scheduled to come up to the room tomorrow around noon or so. They wanted one more night to be sure he was now eating OK, but he last 2 feedings went well and his breathing problems are no more.<\/p>\n
For the first time since this all started to happen, I spent a half hour or so holding Andrew and really had a moment with him. He woke up for me and listened to me talk to him, often making eye contact. It was hard not to get totally choked up thinking how lucky we are to have two precious gifts of life. We tried for so long and at times thought it just might not happen for us, so seeing them now it\u2019s still hard to believe they are ours. But we\u2019re so grateful that they are and love them with all that we have.<\/p>\n
I promise future entries here will be shorter, but I received a lot of email today asking for a update on everybody so I tried to be more detailed then usual.<\/p>\n
Another update late tomorrow, but probably not much before midnight!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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