Millie-date!

It's like an update, only better!

Millie is doing great. She had her heart surgery on Sunday and is recovering beautifully!

Here she is looking like a real baby laying on her belly.

That funny looking spot on her back is the incision from the heart surgery. Amazing, right?!?

Here is Dad implementing what we learned in our NICU parenting class. He is keeping her calm by pulling her legs to her belly, aka the fetal position.

Here she is modeling her new hat from Aunt Betsey and blanket from Aunt Ruthy. She told me to tell y'all "Thanks!"

We told her to pretend she was a Barbie and this is what we got! This is her at exactly one week old. To us she looks different already. We're planning on taking a weekly picture with Barbie to keep everyone up to speed on her growth.

We're still waiting for our new camera charger, so forgive the poor quality of these pictures. We've been using Buck's cell phone.

So for the medical update, Millie is still recovering from the surgery. She got pretty swollen (which was sure hard to look at) but is looking much better. She carries all the swelling in her chin now which is pretty funny looking. Everyone keeps commenting on how healthy she is looking. They've been so impressed with her recovery that they decided to feed her some of my milk today. They also decided that she didn't need to be under her lights for the entire day so she got a little break from sunbathing.

On a slightly-worried-but-not-panic-just-yet note, she did have a poopy diaper tonight with a small amount of blood in it. The doctors asked us to come back around 10:30 PM to talk about some tests they are currently running on her. As Buck put it, "I guess this is the roller coaster they keep talking about." We'll add an update tomorrow when we know more information.

Thank you for your prayers! I know they are helping our sweet baby.