A good day..........

After a more of less sleepless night, spent on the floor for Kyla ( we brought in a mattress from home) and on the chair for Dan, the cardiologist finally arrived today. He confirmed that he was happy with the result of the operation. Baby Aiyála is nearly 'wire / tube free' tonight. They removed the oxygen, the feeding pipe, the drip ( which was connected to her head) and various others tubes. She is no only left with the heart monitor attached to her foot.  This is fantastic news, as Kyla can pick her up easily now, which has made all the difference to feeding her.
Gone are the bottle of expressed milk, baby Aiyála is feeding from her mum! Thank heavens!

Tomorrow the doctor will show Kyla and Dan how to inject Aiyála into her leg daily, to avoid possible thrombosis. This is where they entered during the operation in order to get to her heart.

Fingers crossed we are on the 'home run'. Wouldn't it be amazing if we could all go home by the weekend. We know that the baby has to be checked by the doctors once a week, which is fine and we are delighted that they have requested this.

There have been some funny moments today, when Dan and Geoff were left in the hospital room by themselves to look after the baby. I had my meeting with the manager of Galvez Hospital and Kyla had an appointment with the gyny to check her stitches. This left the two men in charge.
Murphy's law, Aiyála needed a major nappy change ( due to having had a good feed from mum) and then needed feeding with a bottle. I would love to have been a fly on the wall. Listening to the men's report later this afternoon, I think panic set in and it was the blind leading the blind. Thankfully both the men and baby Aiyála made it through the afternoon.