Eyes are open!

I was finally able to get a picture of Lauren with both eyes open! Every time I tried she would have one or both of them closed before I got the picture because of the delay on the camera. She was wide awake today before they handed her to me to hold so I was really hoping I could catch a picture with her eyes open. We cuddled for a bit over 3 hours today and she did pretty well. Her oxygen levels still decrease but she is getting better at bringing them back up with less help from the nurses or me. She is still having issues with her milk feedings refluxing, but for all things considered, is doing fairly well. Still no infections which we are very thankful for. She did get some more red blood cells yesterday because her lab work showed that her levels were low. Preemies don't make as many red blood cells because of immaturity and their red blood cells don't last as long as ours do either. Some great news is that her weight is up to 2lbs 2oz! The NICU made a card with her foot prints that says she is now 2lbs and to "watch me grow." It was very cute and of course I teared up when I saw it. Such a sappy mommy! Lauren is no longer on the IV nutrional fluids, she just has a solution going very slowly to keep her PICC line open. The PICC line may be able to come out in the next few days. They want to make sure that she won't need anymore IV nutrition as long as she does well with the milk feedings. The doctors are trying to get Lauren stable enough to be able to be transported to the Salem Hospital NICU which would be so great. It would be so nice to be able to visit her multiple times per day and only drive 10 minutes vs 1 hour and 10 minutes. Yesterday, the doctor said possibly 2 or 4 more weeks before she could be transferred.