Well it looks like we'll be here for Christmas but it could be a lot worse. The unit has been decorated beautifully and there is a lovely Christmasy atmosphere around the place.
It seems like Ashling has turned the corner - she looks bigger and stronger everyday, and her lung capacity seems to be getter better. We are quietly confident that we will get home sometime in January, if this progress continues. Exciting stuff at this stage as we can hardly remember what it's like to have a bit of normality and live in our own home (even though Ronald McDonald House has been great).
Well, hope you all have a lovely Christmas and thanks again for all your kind words and prayers!
We'll keep this blog updated throughout the Christmas period so stay tuned! We're going to try to put a little video on it next! xxx
So glad Ashling is getting better all the time. Not knowing exactly what is wrong is frustrating and so I hope that you get some answers soon. Emily spent her first Christmas in NICU too. We put up a few decorations around her incubator. My mother-in-law made a tiny Christmas stocking which we hung up and today it is still on our tree at home and always prompts some discussion about that "first Christmas". We tried to have a "normal" family dinner Christmas celebration but then had to dashed away to visit Emily in the afternoon and to take her milk up to her... all seemed so odd. I hope you have a nice Christmas even though it won't be quite how it should be and I hope that Ashling continues to surprise you with her recovery and you get home as soon as possible in the new year.
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