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  • Home

    Home

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    Jess
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    Oh how I love traveling and experiencing new places. I can’t ever get enough of that. There how ever comes a time during all my travels where I look forward to coming home. Even during the most exciting trip that seems like it is going way to fast. There is just something about coming home…

  • Rooming In

    Rooming In

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    Jess
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    Since my last post, Elijah has kept on improving with each day’s nursing. He kept growing stronger and stronger. We think that he finally decided that it would be nice to go home. I continued to be a little emotional. I would have my ups and downs. It was usually either I want to go…

  • Progress

    Progress

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    Brent
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    I will combine a few days here to move the story along. Tuesday morning brought us the pleasant surprise of Elijah being extubated just as we came into the NICU. He also had an EKG performed to check on a heart murmur. He was much more alert and responding well to his first feedings of…

  • Patience

    Patience

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    Jess
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    This week has been one that is teaching Brent and I to be patient. We are ready to go home, tired of eating out, tired of spending the money on eating out, tired of not having our bed and the just continues. We are ready to be done. Have I mentioned that we want to…

  • Becoming a Big Boy

    Becoming a Big Boy

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    Jess
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    Since Thursday afternoon our little man has made some good progress. He went down several steps in oxygen, is wearing clothes, was moved from the isolette, started nursing. Those were all great and wonderful things that happened over the last several days. Today, Sunday, has been another great milestone. They put him on room air…

  • Good Days

    Good Days

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    Jess
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    Both Tuesday and Wednesday went basically the same so I’ll just take about them together. Brent and I were creating a sleeping and pumping schedule that was starting to give us more rest. Since we are at the Ronald McDonald house, coming over to the NICU wasn’t going to happen at night. Even though it’s…

  • Calming Down

    Calming Down

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    Jess
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    Brent and I were able to get some sleep on Sunday evening and even take a moment to go down the hall and say hi to our little man. It was a much needed night with the both of them. It helped me rejuvenate and calm down my whirlwind of emotions. Don’t get me wrong…

  • Whirlwind

    Whirlwind

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    Jess
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    Since that early morning in Bozeman, my emotions have been all over the place. I finally got more sleep that early Sunday morning. That morning couldn’t seem to go fast enough. I got up just before 7 and started plugging away at my discharge homework. Around 8, my doctor came in with the ok to…