Wow!!

So, as you can tell from the pretty pink blog background, Amanda has been granted author rights as well and has access to add some posts at some point.

In my last post on Friday I mentioned that we were so excited to see the progress being made with Baby Girl Koch's (BGK's) heart rate. We have been afraid to get too excited until we saw more than one day's progress in fear that the next day could hold a setback. We have had two more echo's since then, on Saturday and Sunday, and they have both been even better. BGK's heart rate has been almost full sinus rhythm (aka "normal") both days! There have been no instances of tachycardia and only occasional times of 2:1 but mostly 1:1 rhythm. That makes 3 straight days of huge improvement, and enough for me to be extremely excited and encouraged!

Amanda is doing great and handling being here at the hospital in stride. She had me bring in the laptop and printer so she could handle some work and has been attending some of the hospitals educational sessions such as Moms 2 Moms and a class on C-sections. Amazingly, for as much as Amanda doesn't like Carly's dog hair at home, she has really enjoyed the Happy Tails dog visits both weeks. There was a lab that came in from the same breeder that Carly is from and jumped right up on the bed as you can see in the pic above.

Thank you all for the love and support. It is greatly appreciated.

-Mark