Day 9: Malena’s First Graduation

Today Matt and I went to the NICU to visit Malena for a while. We spent a good 3 plus hours there. We fed her twice. She did really well on her small feedings yesterday that today at 2PM they doubled her feedings. She has been so sleepy the past two days. I haven’t seen her eyes for a while. She fell asleep eating her lunch today she was so tired.

I was worried they might put her back on oxygen but when I came in today she still had zero tubes on her face. We did take pictures today.

We got a call from the nurse around 6:30PM today. She explained that Malena had been moved up to the Graduate NICU this afternoon! This is such great news. It made Matt and I a bit nervous because we know that she will be coming home soon and we don’t have the house quite ready yet. We thought we would have a month or two to figure all that out but no Malena is calling the shots and she wants to come home ASAP.

The doctor stopped by to talk to us when we were holding Malena. He added his comments on how amazing she is doing. He said something I liked. “She told us from the beginning. You know babies who come out sick are sick but she wasn’t that way”. She has been a fighter from the beginning.

By the way we love reading all your comments. Melanie, keep em coming.   We haven’t had much time to reply to all of you but know that we appreciate your support and we feel your love through your comments.  Thanks!