Sayla Grace is doing quite well. She is up to 1lb 10ozs...just 1oz away from her birth weight!!! However if she would poop, she'd probably loose a bit of weight.

They have started feeding her again, and they are up to 6cc's of breast milk every 3 hours. They accidentally gave her formula a few times, which I was upset about, but it turned out to be an honest mistake. They were just unaware that I had brought milk up there for her. But she's getting my milk now.

Last night her tummy started to look "loopy." Basically you could see her intestines through the thin skin of her belly. A "loopy" tummy either means that she's not digesting, has too much air in her belly from the CPAP, or that she needs to poop!

This morning her belly was "rounded," which was leading the nurse practitioner to believe that she needs to poop. She's been leaving "skid marks" (yes, that's what they call it!) in her diaper, but no big poops in a few days since she's been eating again.

So we really need her to poop!!! They can give her something called "Glycerin Chip" that is just a tiny piece of glycerin, used as a suppository in babies. They are talking about doing that today, if she doesn't poo soon. Please pray that her insides wake up and start working so she can poo on her own without the glycerin chip!!

In other news, she is now 13 and 3/4 inches long! So she's getting longer!! When she was born she was 13 and 1/2 inches long.

Also her lungs and brain are continuing to develop. Both her chest x-ray and brain scan this week came back normal. Well, her chest x-ray was actually "improved," so it's still a bit cloudy, but it's better than last week! Praise God for this!!

We can tell her lungs and brain are developing, because her Brady episodes are lessening. When I called to check on her at around 10a, nurse Lindsey said she had only had 5 Brady's since 11p last night. That is a HUGE improvement from where she's been over the past week!!

Overall she's continuing to improve, thanks to your prayers! Specific prayers needed right now are:

• Poop!!! Please pray that she poops out everything that's backing her up!! (Bet you never thought you'd pray for poop!!)
• Continuing development of her lungs and brain so she can be weaned off the CPAP and onto the Nasal Cannula.
• Continued growth!!

Thank you again for your prayers thus far. We thank God daily for those that are praying for her. We only wish there was more we could do to repay you. Your prayers and faith are the reason our baby girl is doing so well.