the week in review

hey everyone! sorry i haven't updated in a while like has been busy!!! so aryssa is doing wonderfully. She has latched on to nursing and is taking a bottle like a champ. the most she has taken from me is 28mL and then was just tuckered out and had to take the rest from the feeding tube. for only being 6 days old she is doing awesome. she did have to go on the bili-bed for 1 day for jaundice, but now her levels are great so she hasn't been on it at all since. i keep asking if they have a projected go home date, but nothing so far. i can't believe that tomorrow she is going to be a week old already. where does that time go? lol
i am super excited for my shower this weekend also, to get some supplies and see what else we will need to get before she comes home. grant and i did go and get her car seat and stroller already, i just had to have it. i really don't know why but i felt so unprepared that i had to have something worth while just in case they would have said go ahead take her home...then what i wouldn't have had a car seat!! i don't know it was just one of those things i guess.
anyway here is a link to a whole bunch of pictures i posted on facebook.
i have also gone back to work already. i figured i would rather use the maternity leave for when she is home instead of at the hospital, plus my boss is super nice and understanding that i am just telling her what hours i want to work, and then go from there. what i have been doing is going to aryssa's 730am feeding then going into work at 9 and depending on the day then just going back for her 430pm feeding. it suchs being away that long, but i know then she is resting and getting stronger so she can come home. some patients at work can't believe i am back to work 5 days after having a baby, but the labor was smooth, and i am not sore at all. plus i think i am getting more rest being at work than i would have at home. at least here i am sitting at the computer and doing work. if i was home i would be running around and not just resting. so i am resting at work :) and jamie told me that was quite alright!
Today was an amazing day.... my nieces got to see aryssa!!!! no one under 18 is allowed in the NICU b/c of the H1N1 stuff and i think in general no one under 13 is allowed. anyways back on track here, dustin had a dr's appointment at 1005 today, and my sister said that she was going to walk the kiddos over to the NICU to show the girls where aryssa is. they are confused as to why aryssa didn't come home with me, they know i am not pregnant and i had the baby but they don't get why they can't see her or where she is. so today i skipped her 730am feeding and went to the 1030. just my luck that when i called this morning i thought her nurse was going to be nicole. (see nicole is a nurse that is by the books to the T doesn't stray off or anything. so i was worried what she would do or say when i asked about bringing her to the window to "meet" her cousins.) well nicole said she was only working until 7am and that Julie would be her nurse then. I was so excited b/c julie was super nice and i knew she would understand what the girls were going through. well i came in and said could we hold the feeding off a little bit so that they could see her. she said no problem i will "accidentally" have her wires disconnected so that you can get closer. it was so sweet and seeing those precious little faces peeking in the window just made my day. plus aryssa had her eyes open and was checking things out. the girls even made pictures to put up in her station, that i hung up after they left so that aryssa knew her cousins were thinking of her. i can't wait until they can actually meet her, they are going to be such great big cousins!
well i think that is all i have for now. of course i will keep you updated with everything going on!