And we keep on moving up

We got great news today as we went after lunch to visit Ellie. She has been upgraded!

With this come a change of scenery from room number 4, the Intensive Care Nursery room with the newest cases and the least stable babies, to room number 5, the Transitional Nursery where the babies move before moving down the line into rooms 1 and 2. Yes, the rooms are nonsequentially numbered, but who cares? It is another step down the road. We have many many steps ahead of us that will be baby steps at best, but to have her one step more stable is very comforting.

So we visited her in room five and met her nurses du jour (there are ~150 nurses in the NICU at Yale) who made sure that we each had some quality time with her and then insited that we stay to give her a bath, change her diapers, and wrap her up in freash clothes and a nice warm blanket made be Eleanor's loving aunt. Giddy up.




















Then, to be super funny, Eleanor decided to flip her dad the bird so at least she has a sense of humor about the whole thing:




















We had a nice visit with Abby sister and Brother in law this afternoon and showed Ellie off to Jennifer, Fred and Alex Leichter, although people under 16 are not allowed in the nursery regardless of how mature they are so Claire had to wait outside. Bummer, but it is in the name of keeping the babies healthy.

Still sucking on the Sox plug like it is going out of style.