Sooooo close....

Wow - what an AMAZING turn of events in the last 72 hours for Kaylan. It's been an emotional weekend! Kaylan had a second swallow study on Friday. It was determined that she has been aspirating on the half nectar thickener....thus causing the "wet" lungs and also causing difficulty in breathing. She's now on nectar and a half (think syrup in your milk) and that seems to be the magic potion. Since she's now on this thicker thickener, she is OFF OXYGEN --- that's right...NO OXYGEN!!! She's been off of it since Saturday and doing great so far! We are praying that she has kicked the canula and will be coming home tube free!! She's also now taking 8 of 8 feeds via bottle. She pulled out her feeding tube tonight (I think she might be trying to tell us something) :-)

If all goes well, she should be home by the end of the week. I can't believe I'm actually writing that sentence....the doctors ordered the car seat study for her so that's one of the final steps before discharge. We are so excited we can hardly stand it. We know that we'll be trading one type of "hard" for another, but we will be so happy to be DONE WITH HOSPITALS...hopefully for GOOD!

Please be in prayer for these specific things this week:

1) Kaylan to continue feeding comfortably and complete bottles
2) for her oxygen and breathing to be managed without any assistance
3) for her to continue to grow and gain weight and develop appropriately

We are looking forward to posting some pictures of our babies together again instead of all these individual shots. Here's to hoping that the next blog post is called "Coming Home!"