Happy Birthday Trevor!!

Today is Trevor's birthday, yeah!!! I just wanted to tell him happy birthday from me, the dogs, and Gabriella. We love you!!

Sleepless Nights

Gabriella has had a challenging week as we are winding down on the last few days of her medications. So, it has been an adventure at our house. Between the withdrawls and constant eating, no one in our house is getting any sleep. Thank goodness that Gabriella has grand parents that are amazing. She now has had a sleep over with both Grandmas and her Papa Luke. I don't know if Trevor and I would have made it through the week with out them! She loves going for walks. It is the one thing that soothes her through her worst withdrawls.

This is a picture of her first bath at home. She enjoys her bath, although she has become known for going to the bathroom during her baths.

As you can tell in this picture, she is putting on a lot of weight. She has become ravenous for food. She just keeps eating and eating, no matter how much we give her. This is a part of her withdrawl, so we are hoping she doesn't continue to eat every hour.

The MiracleBaby

We got the pictures developed yesterday from when Gabriella was Life Flighted from St Marks to Primary Childrens. She wasn't even a day old in these pictures.

It is such a miracle that she is still with us.

In these pictures you can see she was getting a blood transfusion. This was just one of four that she had that day.

I can't believe how quickly I had forgotten how sick she really was; even in these pictures she looks so healthly. It is still hard to see these pictures, but it will always remind us how lucky we are to have her.

Adjusting

We are so happy to have Gabriella home with us, although I'm not sure she feels the same way. She had a really bad withdrawl from her medications this weekend. After 3 hours of straight crying, we called the doctor and we are going to take the weaning slower. It will take a while now to get her off everything, but at least she is home with us!

We took out the feeding tube today. It is so nice to have one less thing to worry about!

This is her oxygen tanks, they go everywhere she goes.

This oxygen machine makes oxygen as long as it has power. It runs all day and all night now at our house.

It is so great to have her home with us, even if we are running on two hours of sleep all day long! She looks great and we are so pleased with all the progress she has made.

Welcome Home

It's true, Gabriella got to come home on Wednesday. She is on oxygen and will continue to be on it for at least a month to two months. She still has a feeding tube, (that Trevor placed all by himself) just until she can finish her bottles. She is still on a few medications for a couple more days as well.

The dogs aren't too sure what to think about Gabriella, but they seem to enjoy her when she isn't crying.

Under the doctor's strict recomedations; please no vistors for at least a month until she is all better. Thanks again for everyone's love and support!

More Pictures

Just some more pictures of Gabriella and us in the hospital.

Here is her royal cuteness.

Just hanging out with mom.

She definitely remembers how to cry. Usually only when she is hungry or needs her drugs.

Here is her cute nursery; it is all ready for her.

Happy Mother's Day! From: Trevor & Gabriella

Just an FYI this is Trevor posting a blog. Yes, I gave in and thought that it was an appropriate time to let Ashley take a break and I could update the blog for a night. Sorry for all of the miss spellings.

This has to be the best Mother's Day gift any mother can receive. I won't even try to say how much this can mean to Ashley. Just keep looking the pictures keep getting better.

Ella is doing so well. She does even better when mom is around.

Gabi is just taking a little nap. Boy she keeps getting cuter each day we see her. She must take after her Mom. We are all just praying that she doesn't take after her dad.

Check out her "I love Mommy" shirt. What a great shirt for mothers day. Just wait till Father's Day to see what I get. Ha Ha Ha!!!

She just can't get any cuter. Oh, but she will

Gabriella and I would love to wish Mom (Ashley) a Happy Mother's Day!!!
We love you!!!

Moving Day

Gabriella has made a lot of progress in the past few days. Today they moved her from the NICU to the inpatient infant unit. She continues to do well, she is eating from a bottle now, and taking almost the whole thing (a little over 2 ounces). She is just on oxygen and they are trying to wean her morphine so she can come home.

It is so nice to see her awake and alert.

This is her first outift. Primary children's doesn't have too bad of taste. Nice hoodie!! We are so happy with all her progress, she even graduated to a normal crib now! Now we are just waiting to find out when we can take her home.

The Big Day

Yesterday Gabriella finally came off her ventilator. She was put on a CPAP machine to help with the pressure in lungs and to give her a little bit of oxygen. She is doing great and breathing on her own now.

This was before they took the ventilator out.

This is her new CPAP machine. She gets to wear this funny looking hat, to hold the tubes in the right places.

And now we finally get to hold her again!

It was so nice to finally be able to hold her again. She seemed to enjoy it, she didn't make a sound the whole time. We are so happy that she is doing so well!

Dad's First Feeding

Gabriella likes to be snuggled in this blanket.




Trevor got to feed her today. Not exactly how we pictured her first feeding, but she still enjoys her food!

Dad's first time feeding Gabriella.

New Vetilator

Today Gabriella was placed on a new ventilator. This ventilator gives her a more natural breathing pattern and allows her to breath on her own. The other one gave her up to 80 small puffs of air per minute. It was pretty abrasive. She does have a partially collapsed left lung. This should not have any long term effects, but will take some time for her to recover from this. Her progression has slowed, but we are positive that she will start to improve once again.

Gabriella's support group: The tower of green lights are all of her medications that are keeping her alive. The monitor to the top left, measures her heart rate, pulse, something else, and blood oxygen saturation.

We spend a lot of time in here.

Gabriella's first bath from Mom

Last night Trevor and I went to Primary Childrens to tuck Gabriella in to bed. We have been doing this all week. Last night the nurse was going to give her a bath. I was so excited , and I was able to give her the bath.

She loved her head being washed.

All scrubbed up and ready for bed.

Her hair is all combed and ready for bed.

Sleeping on her side. Can you believe all of the cords, and she has less now than a few days ago. Gabriella has hit a little bit of a plateau, but we know that she will continue to make improvements.