We've gone wireless (well, almost)

Today's update from Dan:

With this report (a belated one - sorry), I'm pleased to say that Anne has ditched all the wires, machines, bleepers, gee-gaws and hoo-ha's that have been pumping and humming around her to date. Only the nose-hose remains, plus a tiny wrapping around the baby's left foot that monitors her heart rate and such.

Gone are the electrolyte line, plus another line that had some kind of fats in it. Also, the jaundice-related lights are gone and today, the nurses took off the ear-patches that held the light-protection goggles onto her head with Velcro.

Anne's taking only mom's milk, plus formula now, which is delivered every three hours at 30ccs per serving. On a related note, she's also doing a great job of holding down all that food, keeping her temperature steady, and looking cute through it all.

So, as I write this, we're about three hours out from Anne's one-week birthday (!), and her progress has been tremendous. All we need her to do is eat, sleep and grow, which she seems to have set about doing; as of today, Anne weighed in at more than her birth weight - quite a milestone.

The requests for new photos are starting to come in again, so I've attached a couple that show Anne when she was over the jaundice light (the nurses drew fakew eyelashes on her goggles!), as well as images of the recent quality time spent with mom and dad.

Lastly, we've just about got a blog ready to go, where you'll be able to see photos, updates and even videos of the baby, so you can see her in action, and actually hear what she sounds like. That should be ready tomorrow.

We'll keep you posted.