One less accessory!

After a sleepless night for our Little Miracle Girl, but lots of rest for mommy, I was greeted by a very restless very stressed out baby this morning. Arms wide open,  saying mama mama, precious Ivy was so happy to see me! Thank you for all your prayers, the rest I got last night was solid and so needed!! I feel like a new girl today and SO DOES IVY!!!!!!! Just minutes after I walked in today, they began the discussion of taking Ivy off CPAP! Her lungs have drastically improved, her blood gas is normal, her numbers look good, there was really nothing stopping them!!!! So that was it! One thing I LOVE about this team is that when they say they are going to do something, they do it! You don't wait all day for it to really happen. Now of course if her cardiologist needs to be here for it and he is in surgery then things might change, but any other time, you do not wait for anything! Love that! 
You can imagine my little mind during this time.... invisioning the wet washcloth, my baby girls lips being wet and cleaned, maybe a peppermint sponge or a few ice chips?? I could barely keep still! And that was that! The doctors came in, they all agreed, the respiratory therapist appeared with her new accessories and the removal of the old ones began!!!

 Out with the old........

The mask I pictured yesterday is not the mask Ivy has been wearing for the past 24 hours. The one shown above is the one she has been wearing. They had a really hard time finding one small enough to fit her face. Even the petite one would get air leaks causing her machine to alarm constantly. Im not talking about the type of beep you hear when her O2 gets low or her Meds finish, or someone forgot to put their seatbelt on. I'm talking about the type of alarm you hear when someone opens the emergency exit door! Its LOUD! So they took her off of that mask and put her in this old fashioned one from back in the day and attached a gel pillow to the back of it. She must have felt like she was being restrained, she was clearly so very uncomfortable.

Just when I thought this day couldn't get any better, Nurse Jaime arrived!!! Yay we love Jaime! She had Ivy hooked up with a damp washcloth within minutes!!

And when I asked her if Ivy could have some ice chips she ran off so quick and came back with a whole cup!!!!!!!!! And a spoon! Ivy grabbed that spoon faster than I could blink and was shoveling it in to her mouth!!! I slowly placed one ice chip in her mouth at a time and she would just roll her eyes back and savor the wet she had been thirsting for all week! It was the most beautiful sight, her body relaxed and for the first time in 24 hours, she was content. She looked at me with those gorgeous eyes of hers and opened her mouth so wide for more. She put her arms out to me and I just leaned in and cradled her as if to hold her the best I could with all her cords, kissing her cheek and whispering Jesus loves you, mommy loves you, daddy loves you!! And she fell asleep.

Thank you Jesus!! 

And thanks to Ivy's special angel Di, 

Look what is waiting for her when she is all better..