Madeline || Update #3

 I can already tell that I’m going to LOVE posting updates like the one I have today!! There will most likely be many ups and downs ahead of us, but we are choosing to rejoice in the victories and “wins” of the moment, and this wkend has held a lot of those! ❤️

There has been steady progress in Madelines lungs, with the pneumothorax, ever since the urgent prayer request we posted on Thursday night. So much so, that last night her bottom chest tube was removed, and this morning the top one was removed! The X-rays have all been showing encouraging progress ever since! She is healing and progressing! She was taken off the CPAP this morning and has responded great to that as well. Her nose oxygen has been dropped to almost nothing and tonight her supplement IV will be removed and she will be exclusively on my breast milk. With the chest tubes gone, there is no current need for more morphine, and just overall the improvement is so so good! 👏

It has been a full weekend for our little girlie! The nurses here keep calling her things like “fighter” and “spunky” and I’m seeing it! She loves to kick her long legs and her little mission in life seems to now be seeing how many of her wires and tubes she can pull out and rearrange. 😂 Yesterday I had left to talk to the nurse for a minute and came back to discover that Madeline had pulled the CPAP and started stuffing it in her mouth. 😜 I’m thinking that we will have our hands full with this little lady if these are already her capabilities at this very very early stage! 😍

My highlight of the day is happening right now as I get to hold her! With the chest tubes, I hadn’t been able to hold her since Monday. So today is  literally the biggest highlight ever. Such sweet snuggles with my little daughter!💞

Please keep praying! And praising the Lord with us! ❤️