It has been an entire week since sweet baby Abigail underwent her life-saving heart surgery. We are happy to report that she has been moved from the NICU onto a different floor in the hospital. That alone speaks volumes! An even more highly anticipated move is the day when she will be able to join her Mommy and Daddy at home. She continues to approach that goal as she improves more and more each day. One of the main hurdles is transitioning from her dependency on the IV for food. Most mothers would agree that as a first-time mom there was some level of anxiety relating to feeding your newborn baby. That in combination with all the complications of Abigail's young life must place it at an extreme level. There has been some resistance from Abigail which I am sure places heavy burdens on Jani. I pray for peace in both of their hearts as they struggle to create that unique bond between mother and child.
I believe that if they can get Abigail to at least improve feeding from a bottle that they will be one more step closer to bringing her home tomorrow or Saturday!!!!!! What a miracle that would be. Let us continue to pray that those life sustaining functions, which the doctors worked so hard to repair, in conjunction with those natural reflexes that Heavenly Father has created for our bodies will supersede her accustomed dependency on machines for live giving.
**UPDATE Jul 15 8:00 pm written by Grandma Kathy in the "comments" link below.**
Praying along with you Briana!! Abigail is absolutely gorgeous!! I see both Jesse and jani in her.
ReplyDeletePraying her home soon. What a beautiful baby.
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i am so happy to hear about this..we are continuing to pray and think about you and your family...
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ReplyDeleteThey removed her feeding tube yesterday, thank heavens! She is doing pretty well with drinking from a bottle. She even nursed once yesterday and today. I think having the tube out of her throat helps. Sometimes she drinks all her bottle and sometimes she leaves a little but I think she is doing great. They say eating is the most tiring thing for her so they need to make sure she is eating more calories than she is using to drink her bottle or nurse. They are adding a little supplement to the breast milk to add just a few more calories.
ReplyDeleteThank you Kathy for the details. It is hard sometimes piecing text messages together to understand the whole picture. We will continue to pray that she becomes for comfortable feeding so that she can go home.
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Briana your doing an amazing Job!I am sure im not alone in feeling how wonderful it is to get on my phone or computor to check in on baby Abigail which is usually once a day!! I know this has been time consuming but please know from someone who loves this little family, it is so appreciatted on so many levels!!!
ReplyDeletewoops that comment was from Cheryl Bennett sorry Lynette you must have been still logged in!!!
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