Late Nights

We are back from Rady Children's Hospital and it is slightly past midnight.  This seems to be the trend lately.  This is now our home away from home and we have a family starting to grow of doctors and nurses.

This evening we were able to hold Kalista in our arms (which is a rare occasion with all her IVs and gadgets) and give her a good hour and a half of being spoiled.  We have realized that she has made a best friend in the NICU.....her pacifier...and it's vanilla flavored too.  She gets really mad sometimes when that little thing falls out of her mouth.

Kalista is off her ventilator, but is now wearing a CPAP apparatus that helps keep her lungs inflated.  Evidentally, her right lung did not want to stay expanded on its own after she was taken off the ventilator and the CPAP machine does that for her.  We are awaiting a few more stable chest  x-rays to confirm that her right lung is fine before they can take the CPAP away.  Because of this, they are holding off on her feedings because the air will only push the food around in her belly.  Not a cool thing since gas pains can get pretty bad!!!!  Ouch!

As the nurses say in the NICU, five steps forward and then three steps back..... ugh!!!