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Our little firecracker had both chest tubes removed Today!!

She already seems SO much more comfortable. Before we could just feel her pain radiating from her tiny cries. This afternoon, when she cried, we just put a bottle in her mouth, and she happily drank her lunch. We even tried to encourage her to try the milk straight from the source, but she was just too hungry to be patient, so we stuck with the bottle for now. Katia was so overcome with emotions from seeing her baby sister cry that she started a little herself. After comforting her, we assured her that there will be quite a bit of crying in the months to follow.

Nora's intake of milk is averaging about 35mils per feeding but it needs to be about 50-55 before she can come home to us. There is still a PICC line in her foot for the oh-so delicious Intralipid fatty emulsion solution filling in for the other 15 mils.

Here we can finally behold her beautiful eyes: