the first weeks of molly's life

This was a crazy time for our family.  Molly was taken to the NICU right after I had her, and I wasn't able to hold her until the next day.  It was incredibly intimidating to see her with so many tubes hooked up to her and her being inside the incubator.  In that first week, she had a surgery to put in a central line which is where she gets her nutrition from since she can't eat.  She'll have that until her transplant is over, and then she'll be able to eat real food.  A few weeks after that she had another surgery to place the g-tube in her tummy so that it can empty the fluids from her stomach.  We expected all this when we were pregnant with her, but it's a whole different feeling when it's actually happening to your child.  It has been one of those times in your life where you have no other choice but to depend on God.  The University Hospital nurses were absolutely amazing and treated Molly with such great care.  It was comforting for me as a mom to leave my child with people who treated her like their own.  They would leave us sweet notes about how precious Molly is, they made her CD's of songs they thought she would like, the doctor even took her on rounds with him.  Despite the circumstances that surround Molly, we've been able to see God work through her life even before she was born.  It's been an incredible experience even if it isn't something we ever would have chosen for ourselves.  God has blessed us with this little girl and all her issues and gave us the ability to trust him from the very beginning.  That's one heck of a miracle if you ask me!