Proud Papa

Well, Lorelei is doing quite alright. She lost one more hook-up, the light. She had already lost it on sunday, but they put it back for one more night on monday because she was about at the level for which to turn it off, but just to be on the safe side they left it on for one more night. By the way, the stuff that should be excreted through the urine is called "bilirubine", which I think is the Dutch name, although it looks kind of international.... So, what's left are stickers on her tummy and foot and a feeding tube.

Yesterday we had a talk with the doctor and he is satisfied about here development. So, that's kind of a relief. There is still not a more accurate prognosis as to when she will be home, but for now it is important that she keeps growing, feeding more and more by herself and keeping her temperature, and she is. (Note: we had to wait quite a while for the doctor to show up. He was like an hour late, which was really annoying.... but, there was also an upside to it: I got to give Lorelei a bottle, which is something I had to wait for over a month for with Tobias. I liked that!)

I have to say that pretty much anything she does (or we do) wears her out. Today for example, we got to give her a bath. That was really nice for us of course, and as far as I could tell it was OK for her too. I had the privilege to do it which was really nice! Also a physical therapist came by and she was also happy with what she saw. She is doing lots of different movements and is showing some muscle control as well. So, that's good too. Well, after that Lisa tried to feed her and that worked a little, but not as much as she had yesterday. Then when we saw her tonight she was so tired that she hardly fed at all.... Of course she gets everything she doesn't eat through her tube, but obviously it would be a lot better for her to drink it herself. Apparently she was still tired from all the excitement this morning...

Even though I only got to hold her for a little bit today I did quite some more yesterday. This picture was taken yesterday too. In this picture you can see:
- A really large daddy
- A really small baby
- Both

But also: A proud papa holding his beautiful daughter!


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