Day 6 in the NICU

Thank you all for your continued prayers. I cannot even begin to express how much they mean to us. Please keep the prayers coming. Specifically, please pray that Noah would have a good night. Pray that Noah would only stay stable or make progress. Pray that Noah would not regress. Pray that Noah would not need the ECMO treatment and that God would direct the doctors and nurses in their decisions. Pray that Psalm 91 would be a promise for Noah.

Today was a good day for little Noah. The ECMO treatment has been, for now, taken off the table. Of course, as we have found out, anything can change within a matter of hours. We are constantly being challenged to put our faith in God and not our faith in Noah's vital statistics. However, we are grateful for today's stats. All of Noah's numbers were much better today and the doctor's have once again started the process of weening him off the ventilator. They are taking the weening process very, very slowly now because Noah has been very sensitive to any changes made to his support levels.

I have been taking everyone's suggestion and singing hymns, kid songs, and silly songs I made up about how much I love Noah to him. I love him more deeply than I knew I could love another human being and it opens my eyes to the true sacrifice God made when He sent His Son to die for our sins.

Please keep praying. Please send out our information to anyone and everyone- we gladly accept prayer from anyone who is willing. I appreciate everyone's offer to come visit Noah, but because of the hospital's policy of visitation at the NICU, it is actually too difficult for us to have visitors right now. Only 2 people can be with him at a time and we have to be there to give permission for those visitors. When Noah is able to have open visitation we will let you all know.

Just briefly, I am healing just fine from the c-section. You can please pray that God will help me balance taking care of myself, pumping for Noah (sorry gentlemen), and visiting Noah.

God is good all of the time.

Lauren