Nora came home today!

Thanks to the support, thoughts and prayers from our wonderful family and friends, and of course the talent and drive of the medical team at St. Louis Children's Hospital, we finally brought our 17 day-old daughter home to her family. Her eating has increased, and her recovery from the procedures she has had to endure has been stellar.

Katia is excited about mentoring her little sister, and Mom & Dad are excited about irregular sleep patterns and lots of laundry.

There was some apprehension from cardiology in the early hours of the day because of these 'episodes' she has been having. They have been calling it SVT. Essentially, her (machine-monitored) heartrate, which should be 120-150 BPM, would register 250 and higher. They had to shock her out of it by placing an icepack on her forehead. This happened 3 times in the last week. After a full exam by cardiology, they determined that it was probably a read error by the monitor. Wow - thanks for freaking us out, though!

So we're home, and as I'm writing this, Nora is squeaking in her sleep in her bassinet next to me, because it's getting close to the midnight feeding.

Thanks again for all of the cards, emails, comments, thoughts, hopes, prayers. Every one of them means so much to us. Keep reading and I'll keep writing.

New picture tomorrow!!