Ruby Hope McKee Starling

I made it three days before I called the Nurse Practitioners at the NICU.  All in all Ruby is doing great.  Her repair incision is not looking so good at one end.  It's the same thing that set off the last infection scare, that her beloved surgeon kept reassureing me that we were over treating.  This morning it started draining some  clear fluid.  I called and  the NP said to just put basitracin and a bandaid on it and if it gets redder to call again in the morning.  That's what we did.  I did resist the urge ask the NP to move in with us.  Ruby is showing no other signs of infection.  No fever.  She's awake and happy for the appropriate amount of time.  We'll just have to see how things look in the morning and go from there.

We've been slowly figuring out more things that Ruby likes and how accommodate her NGfeeds.  As you can see in the picture below I might have found a way to be mobile while she is eating.

Ruby and I decided to stay in PJ's all day today.  Since we didn't really get to lounge around the house the first couple days after she was born, we're doing it now.  We've had fun day of naps and play time. 

We are going to dinner at some freind's  house tonight.  We're looking forward to our first outing as a family.  I'm betting it takes us at least 2 hours to get out the door  :)