The things we get excited about these days truly amaze me. First peeing, then spitting up... today, it's swallowing!
After two days of speech and occupational therapists trying and failing to get Eliza to swallow even a drop of water, today, Eliza sucked stronger than ever and managed to swallow three milliliters of milk! It was slow, hard work for her (and the three of us who needed all of our hands to make it happen!), and it clearly tired her out, but she did it with minimal choking and even maintained her oxygen saturations fairly well (a big challenge for her whenever she's at all upset, much less choking a little). So this is big news and great progress, if painstakingly slow.
Meanwhile, Eliza has plenty of spunk in her, and now that she's getting ready to come home, has decided to mix up her nights and days; she apparently drove her night nurse pretty crazy last night. So we'll just cherish our relatively uninterrupted hours of sleep now in anticipation of upcoming schedule changes!
We'll email later if there's anything else to report.
Love,
Daniele, Sam, Luke, and Eliza
