3 weeks old

Today was much better so thank you all for your words of encouragement. There were much needed and much appreciated.

Gesina had a busy day today. She had a hearing test (she passed!!), a visit with the physical therapist, and a visit with the speech therapist (still working on getting that bottle figured out). In the meantime, she snuggled with her momma for 2 hours!! When she was awake, she would look around and sometimes make the sour face. She could be talked out of the sour face though. I did get a little choked up when I had to leave for the night but I'm pretty sure these are good tears. Progress is being made, my baby girl has had a lot of good days awake and she is headed in the right direction. Saying anything positive still makes me a bit superstitious but I'm trying to fight that silly urge. She is doing well and that makes me happy. So I'm going to work on enjoying the happy!

For her treatment, she is going to get an EEG on Monday to determine what else they are going to do with her 2 remaining meds. That seems like a long time from now but I really do like this "taking it slow" approach to dealing with her seizure meds. The other baby from the same hospital who also had seizures went home today. I got his mom's contact information so we can keep in touch.

Courtesy of Amy, here is a photo that represents a milestone for Gesina... the day when the nurses have finally given up on her hair! We fondly refer to all messy, spiky hair as Gesina hair :-) I figure it will grow and the weight of it will pull it down. One nurse likes to style it into a mohawk which is a very amusing solution to the problem of "Gesina hair."