All the bad days paid off!

Oh my goodness!!  Yesterday was probably the second best day of my life!! First of course being October 6th when Madison was born!!  When Tyler and I first when in to see Madison, we were stopped by two of the nurse practitioners that we love, they talked to us about Madison is now back on her milk, at 1.38ml/hour, they told us that they figured when the feeding tube was in before it wasn't in far enough and that all the milk was just going right into Maddy's esophagus, which would explain why she kept spitting it up.  The nurses told us that normally they us the belly button as a landmark when inserting the feeding tube, but because of Maddy's defect she has no belly button.  So with the insertion of this new tube, they did x-rays to see where the tube was, and to make sure it was in the right spot, now the tube is a whole inch deeper then the previous tubes.  This is just the beginning of the good news!
Also the surgeon from the children's hospital came in and completely changed Madison's dressing.  The surgeon said that we do not need to put the medicine that we were putting on Maddy's omphalocele anymore, because the sac is granulating, and the skin is growing, so no more medicine is needed!  The surgeon was very impressed with the rate of the skin growth, and the shrinkage of the sac!  The surgeon also thought that having her dead umbilical cord tied to the bed was not only gross, but unnecessary so she cut the cord!  Which means Madison is no longer tied to her bed!!  Which means...I got to hold her!!! For the very first time, I got to hold my baby!!  It was the best thing in the whole wide world!! She was awake and looking right into my eyes, she is just so beautiful!  She didn't stay awake for very long though, but she woke up pretty fast when I had to put her back into her bed.  Later that night Tyler also got to hold her, he was a little awkward at first, but we got him sorted out.   There is still no word on when the big move to children's is happening, but it could happen any day now.  We will keep you in the loop!