Rosie the Nurse giving a pep talk (there's another one facing down).
Leigh got started on steroids Saturday and is doing much better on the ventilator. Rumors abound of possibly getting off the vent Wednesday or Thursday.
Even more exciting, Leigh Rutledge pooped twice today! This is really (seriously) great news; this means her intestines are moving things along, which means she can get fed more and more of the powerful breast milk, which means she can get bigger, stronger, and better. Once she gets biggest, and strongest, and biggerest, she can come home. By the transitive property, poop = home.
We're in good spirits here.
Pictures of big brother to provide inspiration.
St. Christopher's medal (courtesy Aunt MAV, Grandad DRV, JR, and MMV) looped over her name tag.
The legend of St. Christopher is he carried an impossibly heavy child across an unfordable stream. While our baby may not be Christ (as the child was), maybe he can carry our impossibly featherweight Leigh through troubled times.Gentle DHV with cousin Ida.
More pictures of the Oregonians to follow.
8 comments:
It is OH so good to see that you guys still have a wonderful sense of humor! (I have to meet this Dan of yours, Susannah!)
I am THRILLED for you that Leigh is pooping! I bet poop has never looked so good to someone before!
Still sending hugs your way to all of you!
I got some news of the west coast/east coast cousin conference:
1. Leigh is quite lively in person.
2. D-Hawk is very gentle with Ida, no hair pulling, scratching, biting. He is also low-volume. This was all in comparison to aggressive and very loud Elsie.
3. The New Haven meals would have tasted better with capers.
Just a few more comments:
1. Nice velour tracksuit, D-Hawk.
2. What happened to Ida's hair?
3. It's never too early to start indoctrinating our girls with the feminist manifesto -- go Leigh!
great news! we've been following the blog from st. louis and will continue to send thoughts of poopy diapers and other positive vibes your way. we also by the way kind of liked dhv's long hair, but he does look pretty good post-cut as well. ;)
xo steph park, aaron and nicholas
I can say in all sincerity I have never been remotely emotional about poop until now :) Especially that belonging to someone else's child. I'm so glad for the progress...I looove the sign on her isolette!
Gooooo Leigh!! What wonderful news you guys have had the past couple of days! I love Danny's hair-cut, such a big boy! Glad to hear things are looking up!!!
I guess I was not the first person, even the first Oregonian, to state that LRV is bigger in person than she looks in pictures.
She's bigger in person than she looks in pictures!
I'd like to see Leigh offa that vent, so that we can get some unchi-face documentation, please.
Love,
Auntella.
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