Still Going Strong

Madeleine has had a really good week. The change in feeding seems to be making a huge difference as her breathing appears to be slowing down and she's also improving at bottle feeding. She actually gets hungry during the day and we've learned that hungry babies are not happy babies. On the flip side, she's still sleeping through the night once we hook her up to the pump. All in all, its just a pretty boring, straightforward week.

Madeleiene's appointments on Monday went great-- the pediatrician and surgeon are both pleased with her progress. The best sign of progress is that we don't have another doctor's appointment until August 28th. That's an eternity for Madeleine. We're hopeful that in the next two weeks, we'll see significant weight gain. At that point, we'll have a better idea of the date for her re-attachment surgery-- we're still a long ways off-- and can also start to think about possible modifications to her care. Our goal remains to be cord free (no oxygen, feeding tube, monitors, etc) by Christmas and we think this is still possible.

In any case, we have more pictures and I'll try to post sometime tonight or over the weekend. Thanks again for everyone's support.

Brent