Perspective.

I took some pictures in the NICU today to give you an idea of what our visits with Chloe look like.

Her isolette (the box around her) controls the air temperature and keeps her warm since her body can't do that yet.  (See the numbers on the front of the isolette, reading body temperature and air temperature). 

She has a feeding tube that runs into her nostril and down into her stomach delivering breast milk to her constantly, now at 8ml/hour (see the syringe to the left of the isolette with the yellow stuff inside).  Today they remover her IV, so she's only on breast milk now!!  She has monitors taped to her chest which watch her pulse, respiration rate, and oxygen levels at all times (see the computer screen in the upper right).

While all of this looks scary, I have to remind myself daily to keep things in perspective.  Chloe is doing really well, and just needs more time to grow.  We are extremely blessed.