Progress...

Today I have to say has been a better day so far. Livi looked so much better. Her face isn't as swollen and nor is her belly. They took out one of the chest tubes (3 more to go), went down on the morphine drips and her chest X-ray looked so much better (they couldn't even see her lung yesterday). So far her blood pressure has been stable (one less med) and they are hoping by tonight to go a bit down on the ventilator. Livi is tolerating her feeding fine so she is getting almost 0.5 oz per hr.
She did open her eyes for the first time around 10:00 am ...YAY...and it was soooo precious. She looked at us back and forth and her little mouth start drooling because she wanted to talk so bad :-) . We had to stop talking no matter how much we wanted to play with her so she didn't start getting too much stimulation and had to get more sedatives.
I brought her favorite nite-nite book "On the night you were Born'' so i could read it to her but couldn't do it... tears covered my eyes as soon as I opened it so, Peter took it and read it to her as we both held each one of her little hands until she went back to sleep.
The day is still long but thanks to all your prayers we believe things will get better soon :-) .