12.10.10

Several things for today -
First of all!!! My little niece has made her appearance!! Baylie Marie Nickerson was born this morning and is totally perfect.  I skyped with Brian and Heather this morning, and got to see Baylie. She's adorable. Bright eyed and beautiful. Full head of BLACK hair. Wonderful! I struggled (translation - bawled my eyes out numerous times) quite a bit yesterday, knowing that I couldn't be there and knowing that I won't get to meet her in person for quite a while, but I know I need and want to be here with Harper. And, I know Brian and Heather understand, as they haven't met Harper yet either.
Next, some fun things - I may have gotten projectile spit up the other day, but she topped herself last night while Matt was changing her diaper....yeah, use your imagination folks. He did very well, and was able to actually catch it all in the diaper (the new one that he was trying to put on her). I was too busy laughing and trying not to barf (yeah, I know, I'm going to have to get over that).
We got to give her a bath in a tub for the first time. Up until now she has only had sponge baths. Matt did most of the work, since I have given her a bath already and he hadn't. I helped just keep her up in the tub, she kept wanting to slide down the tub. She actually liked it, I think it was because she was so snuggly and warm. She didn't fuss at all.
Now, on to the morning report. They are increasing her calorie intake to 26 but keeping the amount of milk she is getting to 23 cc's.
They have dropped her down to .5 liter flow on the oxygen. I'm a little surprised by this, because she still seems inconsistent on the .8 liter flow, but they are really wanting to get her weaned off the oxygen, so if they feel she can handle it, I will trust them.
Her CBC this morning showed that her red blood cell count was still lower than they want, but it is still increasing, so no transfusion as of right now. This surprised me too, I was sure that she was going to need one, I'm not sure why I thought that, I guess I was just trying to not keep my hopes up. They will repeat the CBC on Monday and see where she is sitting.