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06/19/2002 Entry: "She's here!!!"
Viviana Jean The was born via C-section today, June 19th at 12:32. She weighed about 2.5 kilos at birth (5.5 lbs) and is about 15 inches long (these are estimates pending official measurements).
She was immediately whisked away to the NICU (Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit) where they began to help her live. We visited her about an hour later (they wheeled Chrissy in on her stretcher), and we got to see her, touch her, and adore her.
As of a couple of hours ago, she is still in critical condition, but better than she was when she first came out. They aren't having to ventilate her quite as much, and her blood oxygenation levels are pretty good. The hope is that she will continue to improve to the point where they can move her to a less advanced respirator, so that they can do an MRI on her to see what is going on in her chest, as they have detected a mass in her chest (at the bottom of her right lung) that they can't identify.
Chrissy and I can visit her in the NICU as often as we wish. I was thinking about going up to read her a bedtime story before retiring for the evening (I will be spending the nights at the hospital with Chrissy).
More later...