FROM MOMMIE KIM

Hello Family and Friends!!   Just wanted to let you all know how our baby girl is doing.  She is now up to four pounds!  Woo-hoo for her!   She was placed back on C-Pap for a week and was just taken back off of it yesterday.  It is common for them to go back and forth for awhile.  We are all hoping she can stay off C-Pap this time though.  She just has the nose canula now.   She has had some fairly bad reflux, which is also common for preemies.  The goal is to get her feeds down to 15 minutes every three hours.  They had her at an hour every three hours but it was too much.  They just changed her back to two hours of feeds every three hours.  This has helped with the reflux.  The goal is to keep her off C-Pap even if we have to take a step back on her feeds.   She still drops her oxygen stats from time to time, which is normal but very stressful for Mommy.  Yesterday was a hard day for me.  A lot of grieving over the twins and then while holding her, her stats kept dropping.  I had a little meltdown and so we put her back to bed and got her stats back up.  The nurse said she would have been fine...not to focus on the monitor but instead to look at the baby and see how she looks (which she looked ok) but it was too much for me.  I just want her to be safe and get strong.  We will be very happy when she is strong enough to breathe easily on her own and come home.   We have been working on the baby room, which brings us a lot of joy and a lot of sadness.  It looks good!!   For my friends at Nationwide - I came to Nationwide on Tuesday and for those of you I had time to see it was wonderful..Thank you!  I will be back this week or beginning of next to see folks I didn't get a chance to see.   Thank you for your continued prayers and support for our family.  We will be sending pixs to Judy (who is setting up our family website) and hope to have those up by this weekend or next week.  I will send a new email with the address once we have pixs on it.   Love Kirk and Kimberly