Day 5: Sunday April 24

The Day of Big surprises.... I went up to the hospital with Grandpa Larry (Todd was at home with Cole who decided to wake up with the throw ups this morning) and they had taken Eden off her ventilator early that morning. Yeah!!!! No one was expecting this so was defiantly a great surprise. Grandpa Lex came up shortly after we got there, we were all so excited. She is doing great, she is still on a little oxygen to help her, but breathing really good on her own. They still have her on pain medication because of all the swelling in her head (big headache). The Dr. decided that she could also start eating today, they are starting her off with little amounts to see how her stomach will take it. So i got to feed her her first food, they just filled up a nipple with 5ml of breast milk and she just sucked it down.
We both went up later that night to see her and I actually got to hold her for the first time and see if she would nurse. After she puked all over me she did latch on for 5 good suck before she was just too tired. They had already moved her up to 10ml by that night so she drank the the rest down in a bottle.