sleeping beauty

Our little Mary Louise is still deep in slumber and I'm so upset I can hardly hold a conversation with the nurses anymore. They tried telling me today that some babies just have trouble processing anesthesia. I nearly ripped the weekend nurse's head off with my response -"it's not that she's having trouble processing - it has nothing to do with her body - she's been OVER-DOSED!!" I'd like for the anesthesiologist to go to sleep each night with a picture of our little baby girl the way she is now - swollen, fluffy because of the fluids running in place of the breast milk she should be eagerly drinking, with tubes and IV's covering her arms and face. I would like for that picture to be right next to one of her just before surgery - with her paci in her mouth, red hair in a fluff of little curls on the back of her perfect head with her beautiful hands around my finger, gripping happily. I wonder if they would think about it the next time they were in on a surgery with a little baby - I wonder if they would think twice before pushing that extra dose- or at least re-check their damn math.

David is still having blood in his stool but it is less than before and the stools are much less frequent than before. I nippled him this morning and he took the entire bottle - YAY! He is slow and difficult to nipple but he gets it done eventually. He's resting more easily now as well which is nice. We can only hope he continues to improve.

UGH!
Heather