Things have been pretty quiet this weekend. Ella keeps progressing every day. She should be ready to come home with us by Wednesday, as long as she keeps up the pace she’s on. She has no more tubes, and is only wearing the monitors on her chest so the nurses can keep tabs on her. She has been brought down to .08ml of morphine. The doctor said they can only decrease at a rate of 20-30% per day to avoid withdrawals. Tomorrow they will drop her to .05ml and from there they will take her off completely. So hopefully we don’t have any withdrawal symptoms appear Tuesday which would make her ready to come home Wednesday. She is up to about 100 cc of milk each feeding now (30 cc is one ounce.) which is awesome. She’s been bumped to on demand feedings which is good and bad. I really liked her 3 hour feeding schedule, but last night she proved it wasn’t enough. I feed her about 66cc around 5 (she only needs 65cc). Then I had to run an errand. When I got back for her 8 pm feeding the nurse told me she got cranky around 7, and she ate another 71 cc. Then she woke up for me and about 8:30 pm ate another 78cc. Crazy girl.

Meanwhile, Jameson takes full advantage of mom and dad not having any extra hands. Kevin was holding Ella, so you can’t really go far because of the wires. I was pumping what Ella didn’t eat, so both my hands were occupied. Jameson took advantage and ate all the toppings off the pizza we brought for dinner tonight. Rather than having a hawaiian pizza and pepperoni/sausage… we now have a cheese pizza. (I’ll post the pic of Jameson in a little bit. I am holding my baby girl and my bag with the camera is across the room.)