Makenley update.

First of all, thank you so much for all the prayers and well wishes as we welcomed Makenley into our lives. Haven't had a whole lot of time to go through and reply to each individual email, text, post, or phone call, but we have read most of them and appreciate all of you.
On Sunday afternoon, my water broke. Typical for my pregnancies. We lined up a babysitter for our kids, and headed to the hospital. Contractions hadn't started when we arrived, so they decided to try and hold labor off for another day or two by administering a small dose of medicine, but wasn't going to fight it too aggressively. The contractions started a few hours later, so we got the medicine. The contractions spaced out, but didn't fully stop, so they just let it progress. Once the medicine was out of my system and the contractions became consistent, things rapidly happened. Our doctor, who was 10 minutes away when I was at 4cm dilated and on her way missed the birth. Our sweet nurse caught Makenley five minutes before the doctor, the NICU staff who was just down the hall, and another doctor got there. Her cord was wrapped around her neck a couple times, and because of how fast things happened, she had a bit of a challenge adjusting, but quickly recovered.
Yesterday she did great. She had no issues at all. They started her feeds, and she took the bottle and nursed like a champ. The second feeding of the day, she continued to do well. After though, she spit up. She was laying down, so she choked on it a little bit while trying to get it out and her oxygen dropped. They suctioned her and cleared her airway, gave her some oxygen, and she was fine. Since then, they're giving her a break today and are giving her a little boost of oxygen through a nasal canula, and giving her feedings through a tube. Her billi levels are rising a tiny bit, so starting today, she's also under the phototherapy lights. Her numbers are still in the normal range, but they want to catch it before she becomes jaundiced. All these things are common with preemies (although, scary!), but we were really hoping she'd be able to avoid them.
Please continue to keep her in your thoughts and prayers as she works on meeting her milestones to come home. And pray for the rest of us, as we try and find some balance, and strength to ride out this NICU ride.
Thanks again for all your thoughts, prayers, messages, emails, texts and calls. We appreciate it!
Love, the Terhune Family