So far, today has been great!  When I came to the room around 3 am, Heath told me that at 1 am, Kynan had woken him up crying.  What is so great about that is that Kynan was in his incubator and Heath—who has horrible hearing—could hear him!  Last night, Heath also got to change both babies twice (I got to change Kaci yesterday…and embarrassingly, I put the diaper on backwards.  And not the type of backwards where the tabs are in the front.  I put the outside on the inside…Oops!).  He also got to feed and flip Kynan.  Lucky!

This morning, Dr. Thomas, the neonatologist said Kaci was looking great and that we would try to extubate again today. 

Bryan was able to visit on his way back to school, and after he left I got to hold Kynan for 35 glorious minutes.  He was awake the majority of the time.  I loved how he moved from where we first placed him, to where he was comfortable on my chest.  Every time I tried to re-position him, he would scoot back to ‘his’ spot. 

Andrea and Jimmy were able to stop by to visit and we had a short, but nice one.  When they left, Kaci was extubated.

It had been my intention to not be present in the room for this procedure, because the last time we did it, it was very traumatic for me.  However, this was not to be.  I was pumping when they decided to do it and there was nothing I could do but pretend that I didn’t know what was going on.  I finished what I was doing and washed my supplies.

When I walked back by Kaci’s incubator, I noticed that the tube was no longer in her mouth.  What?!  I hadn’t heard any bells or dings at all.  I quickly looked at the monitor and her oxygen saturation levels were at 100.  Wow!  You can’t get better than that!  She didn’t cry at all and showed no signs that she had ever had a breathing problem.  It was as though she had been breathing on her own from birth.  Amazing.

Currently we are waiting on her first blood gas since the procedure to come back.  It will let us know how well she is really doing.  I hope it is great!  Oh—It just got here.  The doctor said it was “near perfect!”  Yea Kaci!!

Since the procedure, Kaci has been wiggling and rooting.  I am super excited about the rooting.  They are holding off on feeding her until we get the results back, and the poor baby is hungry.  She has fussed a little, but we haven’t heard a good wail yet.  I hope it’s as cute as her brothers!

There is a baby across the hall—a full term baby.  I don’t know why she is here, but she NEVER stops crying.  NEVER.  Maybe that is why she is here?  She literally cries all day and all night.  Heath made a comment earlier that he bets all the nurses are glad that they aren’t responsible for taking care of her.  Nothing makes her happy.  Then he commented that he sort of wished it was his babies that he got to hear cry all the time.  I know the feeling.

And what would a post be without a few pictures of my precious kids?

My baby Kynan

Mommy’s Little Monkey!

His face is smaller than the palm of my hand.

Kaci without the tube!!  Yea!

Doesn’t she look like Keali?

Sleeping soundly.  I’m so happy we can actually see her face now!