Evie Post-Op Update #4

It's Sharon...check out the pictures from today - NO MORE TUBES!! Today Evie was taken off the oxygen because she was doing so well on her own. Her oxygen saturations levels were in the 80's while I was there. She is also taking a bottle well, so the feeding tube was removed. She does still have 2 IV's but they are not hooked up to anything anymore. The nurses just keep the needles in, in case they need them again. It is REALLY hard to put an IV into a baby, so once they get it in, they leave it.

Her cheeks look blotchy in these pictures because of all the tape that she had on her face. The red light on her hand (ET phone home!) is a monitor for her oxygen saturation. Sometimes they put it on her feet - it's just like a little band-aid.

The only problem now is that she is super cranky because she is so over-tired. She is a busybody and wants to look at everything and doesn't want to sleep, and Francis and I are not there to be strict with naps and bedtime. She usually sleeps through the night (12 hours) and last night she only took a 2 hour nap and a 3 hour nap. And all the doctors and nurses are wondering why she is so fussy and inconsolable! I can't wait to get her home and back into her routine.