Saturday, November 22- AM

Lexi had an uneventful night (Praise God!). She is sleeping a lot but hopefully will begin to wake up more today. We are even going attempt a bottle feed today which means that Cherie will hopefully get to hold her (it has been 6 days!). If she tolerates a bottle feed this afternoon, we will attempt another one tonight. They will keep the feeding tube in place and feed her through that also until she is well enough to eat every meal by bottle. Lexi also had 3 poopie diapers yesterday! How exciting! (It's amazing the small things you get excited about in the ICU). As we mentioned last night, Lexi had to be placed back on her "potent" blood pressure medication. She can not be moved out of the ICU until she is able to be off and stay off of this medication. They are going to try to begin weening her back off of it again today.

Specific Prayer Requests:
Please pray for Lexi's blood pressure. Without her potent medication, it is EXTREMELY high (typically in the 120s over the 60s- they want babies to be 60s over 40s).

Pray that the bottle feeds go well and that Lexi remains stable as she is moved around more today. Pray that we will finally get to hold her again.

Pray for us as we begin to focus back on life outside of the ICU. Jon returns home tomorrow evening to go back to work and take care of the twins. Cherie will remain in Columbus. The financial burden of this situation is beginning to become a reality. Pray that we will be able to budget effectively in order to adapt to the large financial expenses.