Still Waiting...

It is about noon on the third day (thursday) and we are still waiting to hear if Eden can be up and moving around.  It is nearly impossible to keep her flat now that she is regaining energy to be up and mobile.  We must have paged our surgeon 6 times last night and a couple more this morning and heard nothing.  The nurses here are frustrated because if he truly wanted her flat he should have given her sedation to make sure she is staying flat.  We have let her on all fours a couple times for a minute or so to give her a break and then flip her right back.  I have been standing over her crib playing with her all day yesterday and now today.  It's tiring but God is good...she is doing so well!
Our other issue is Dr. Menezes gave us permission to give her solids (to our faces yesterday morning) and then failed to put in an order for it, so none of the nurses knew about it and would allow it.  I can't say it has been horrible but it's been hard.  She is a normal baby and wants to eat lunch and supper just like the rest of us!  When we got to our new floor yesterday it was shortly after seeing the doc and we just told the nurses on our new floor that he had told us it was ok to give solids so she just believed us and let us do it since Eden was hungry at that time.  She was just finishing up her last couple bites and the nurse came in to say he hadn't put the order in yet so we weren't allowed to give her anymore.  So at least we got lunch in her before that all happened!

We are passing the time by with a Baby Einstein movie (see the TV hanging from the ceiling directly above her bed?)!  And we may have snuck her a few cheerios to enjoy with the show!

 

I love this picture of her completely focused on the movie.  She loves the puppets especially!



 

One of the nurses came in and gave Eden a sponge bath.  She was so cold the whole time but it was a good way to waste another half hour of laying flat!  Plus, we got to put on a new set of clothes and a fresh sheet when we were all done!