Day #2

Alyssa Update. . .

We are now on day two at Children's. Alyssa is doing wonderful. . .and is just beautiful! The nurses are all wanting to hold and cuddle with her.

So, she was transfered to Children's about 4 hours after she was born and had surgery 8 hours after birth. The surgery lasted for 3 hours and her bowel was worse then what we had originally thought. But, the surgeon felt the surgery was techincally great. So, we are being optomistic. She has less bowel then we would like, but the surgeon said that it should stretch out and lengthen. We will not know the long term outcome for quite some time. We should be here at Children's for a minimum of 3 to 4 weeks. It will take about a year to truly see how her bowel will be.

Today, Alyssa received her first bath. NJ and I washed her nice THICK brown hair. She also had her breathing tube taken out and is now off oxygen. All great progression. She is in the process of getting a PIC line as we speak. So keep your fingers crossed that it goes in. It means less poking in the long run and she will be able to increase her fluid (food) intake.

That's the quick update of how we are doing. . . . Once I am able to download some pictures, I will post them.

Love,
NJ, Kim and Alyssa