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No real news to report, but I knew some of you would be checking back to see. Emmy's doing fine this evening. She did great nursing earlier in the afternoon and did pretty well this evening. We just both have a learning curve and her tiny size adds an extra challenge to the process. It's nice now that we can hold her as long as we want after we feed her and enjoy some time with her. And, I'm glad the nurses take her out and play with her at the NICU desk at night. She's now 3 lbs 10.8 oz!

We still don't have much clarity as to why she is not out in a bassinet if in fact she hasn't lost any weight. No one seemed to want to discuss it this afternoon, so I asked her night nurse (who was there last night, even though she wasn't assigned to Emmy) if she has any idea what exactly happened. She was, of course, there for and in agreement with Felicia's irritation last night with the move back to the isolette. She checked all her recorded weights and she said she'd talk to the nurse practitioner on duty tonight and see if they could move her back to the bassinet. If there's a reason she's not in one, fine. But, based upon what Heather saw recorded, weight/temp. should not have been the reason. I don't care if someone made a mistake, let's just go back to the bassinet.

The back and forth has gotten old. Not that it was ever enjoyable, but now that it seems we should be so close to bringing her home, I'm really so done with the hospital. She was wide awake this afternoon when I was done feeding her and holding her for a while, and it was so hard to leave her. I didn't have to leave, but there's only so long one can sit in a less than comfy rocking chair in silence and stare at those four walls.

We both know that bringing her home will bring new challenges and a new level of sleep deprivation, but bring it on. We want the opportunity to establish our family at our house and whatever level of "normalcy" that in our pmay bring. And we'd like to be able to hang out with her in the comfort of our home and pjs! So, we continue to hope that happens SOON!