A fun weekend with Zoe and family. Jason's Mom, sister, brother-in-law, and nephew Ethan were down to visit. Margi hadn't seen Zoe since right after she came off ECMO so the difference was amazing and Ashley and Josh hadn't seen her at all yet. Everyone got a chance to hold her for a bit before it was time to work on feedings.
Zoe's doing better with feedings, she now has the suck thing so figures out that she can drink over an once from a bottle in under 10 minutes, of course then she yacks it all up because she gets too much air, so now we have to work on pacing her a bit more. She is still doing good with breast feeding but we have a long way to go to get to oor 95 ml. She is now up to 10lbs, 6 oz.
Jason and I have our big meeting tomorrow with the pulmonologist and the neonatologist, so hopefully we will soon have a few more answers as to what the next step is for the three of us.
The picture below is Jason's nephew, Ethan, in front of the sunflower my dad made for the children's garden here at Emmanual Legacy Hospital. It has a leaf on it that is inscribed with "thanks to the doctors and staff at Emmanuel" It also has Zoe's name and birthdate on it. It looks beautiful in the garden with all the other art work and the flowers and is a great reminder of all they have done for us.
