I can't say I wasn't hoping for a less tragic looking photo for my daughters one month birthday but life is what it is in the NICU! As you can see Canon's red hair is really making an appearance in this photo! She is weighing in at 3 pounds 9 ounces and is a little over 15 inches long. She's a hot body in her current accommodations, the NICU isolette, so we still can't dress her up in any clothes but I am sure the day is drawing near where she will be one well dressed Children's Hospital guest!
Like any preemie in the NICU Canon's progress has been slow and at times we take one step forward and two steps back. Last Sunday we learned that Canon no longer had the coarctation of the aorta that she was originally transferred to CHLA for. This is a HUGE answer to prayer, the coarctation is an urgent issue and typically requires surgery immediately. The doctors were monitoring Canon daily and doing echocardiograms every couple of days to make sure she wasn't going into heart failure and hoping she could get to 4 pounds before surgery. As it turns out, I believe God healed her from that and now we have more time for her to grow for the other surgery she needs. She will still need open heart surgery to address the hole between her right and left ventricle and they'll close off another hole straddling the aorta at the same time. Every little milestone is so exciting and we can't wait to bring our little one home!
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