Day 1

M and I couldn't stand to be in our room without Peanut, so we spent the first day down in her NICU room. We got to hold her and kiss and cuddle her, which was so amazing. Things were looking better, and the nurses were slowly trying to lower her oxygen and get her to breath completely on her own. They had her almost off when she had another episode.

Her oxygen dropped a ton, she started to turn blue, and didn't want to breath on her own. They had to take her from us and turn up her oxygen again. We didn't get to hold her after that, which was one of the worst things. It broke our hearts to have to sit and look at her laying there all hooked up to wires.

They did an X-Ray on her chest to check her lungs, and then brought in US. For hours (ok, probably not really, but it really felt like it!), they looked at her heart. Unfortunately, they wouldn't tell us anything. So we sat, staring at the US screen, being completely lost at what we were looking at.

After the US was done, one of the nurses told us that there were a couple things they saw in the US that weren't right, but weren't HUGE issues. One was a valve that hadn't closed yet, but they said that sometimes they don't right away. The other was a small hole between 2 chambers. It wasn't huge though so they didn't seem too worried about it. All the US pictures got sent to the heart specialist to have him look them over. We would know more once he had a chance to go over them.

So we spent day 1 sitting and wondering and waiting and staring at Peanut. Pumpkin came to the hospital and got to see his new baby sister. He was pretty excited but didn't want to just sit in one room and stare at her, so he didn't stay long. M and I didn't want to just have to sit and stare either, but we hated to sit in our room without her, so sit and stare we did.

The nurses woke me that night every time she was ready to feed, and for her first bath. They were still working on trying to lower her oxygen, but she had to stay in the NICU for that first night, and into the next day with hopes that we would get to go home on Monday.