Hoppy Halloween!

Hello again!  I am here to tell you that Madison is now at full feeds of 19.5ml/hr and she is tolerating very well.  I am also here to tell you that I have now nursed her 3 times on 3 different days, and she hasn't thrown up any of it!  Madison's PICC is now out of her arm, meaning that all of the food that she is getting is straight up Mommy's milk!!  Unfortunately, all of that Mommy's milk is still bypassing her stomach, but today they shut off her continuous milk drip for two hours so that I could nurse her for her two hours worth of milk.  She probably ended up getting more then her dose but that is ok.  If she doesn't throw it up, that is a sign that I could probably nurse her more frequently.  Today Madison was moved to the level 2 of the NICU, actually making her no longer in the NICU, she is now in the special care nursery (SCU).  This is only a temporary move as she will most likely be moving to the children's hospital within the week.  The transfer team at foothills and the children's all know that she is coming, they are just waiting for her care to be transferred.  Originally they were going to transfer her to the surgeons at the children's, but in order for her to go onto the unit instead of the PICU at children's she has to have her care from a pediatrician instead of a surgeon.  Plus she isn't going to have her surgery for a while, so the surgeons don't need to be her primary care.
Also, Madison's echocardiograph came back showing that she has only one VSD (ventricular septal defect), which at her last echo, they said that she had two, and when she was in my tummy they said that she had three!  So apparently just one now, and unfortunately she still has blood flow between her two chambers because of it, but I guess they aren't too concerned with it right now, so that is awesome!
Madison's nurse made her a Halloween costume and here is the picture:

Hoppy Halloween!!!