Happy 3 Months, Abby!

Written Sunday Night, July 30th, 2006

Go Abby! It’s your birthday! Go Abby! It’s your birthday!

Saturday was Abby’s 3 month birthday. And she celebrated with a nice, rather uneventful day. She is still working on her feedings and while she’s progressing slowly, she’s not where we need her to be. Kelly and I are confident that Abby will eventually be able to take a full bottle every three hours eventually because she is taking more on average each time and she is beginning to take a full bottle more frequently lately.

Our main goal though is to get her home! And that means putting in the G Tube I mentioned in my previous update. The G Tube is a tube that will literally stick out of her side and go inside to her stomach. Each time Abby doesn’t take a full bottle, we’ll give her the rest of her bottle through the G Tube. It is temporary thing too, which is good to know. How temporary is anybody’s guess. That’s Abby’s call. So this week, Kelly and I will be discussing with the docs our options about when to put the G Tube in and the details that go along with that.

I don’t have much else to report. The eye doc hasn’t come by yet to do another follow up on Abby so there’s no news there. She is looking all around and you can tell when she’s looking at you, which are all good signs.

We love our Abby and her 3 month birthday comes with joy and sadness because we also love and miss her sisters terribly. And while today was sad as we remembered Emma and Maddy, we know we’re lucky to have our Abby, each other and all of you praying for us. We love you all and yes, we still enjoy the comments so please keep them up.

Have a great Monday and enjoy the new pictures.
Ryan and Kelly