Recovery: Day #3

One week old today!

We had a pretty good day today. Claire went a full 8 hours between doses of morphine and the amount of supplemental oxygen that she is needing has gotten lower and lower throughout the day!  She is still extremely sleepy and pretty fussy when she's awake but we are seeing big improvements and her swelling has gone down.  Her surgeon is coming at 10am tomorrow and we hope to be able to remove some of her "accessories" and to start feeding her at that time.  She did get an eye infection so we started some antibiotics in her eyes today.

Some of the things we've learned about Claire:
> She is a night owl!  Her most awake time of the entire day is midnight through about four o'clock.
> She loves to be swaddled but she always finds a way to wiggle out her left arm to use it for getting into mischief (mostly pulling out her tubes and pulling off her sensors!).  

Claire's board in her room, decorated by Mommy and her nurses.

> She loves to be held and is comforted specifically by pressure over her arms when they are placed across her chest.  
> She has extremely sensitive skin so we have begun a little routine of making sure to move her sensors around often, to take off any tape as soon as we can, and we've begun a little moisturizing routine as well.
> She makes the cutest little noises I've ever heard, she even made "talking" noises for the first time today, hopefully she was trying to tell us that she's feeling better!