Emily's first few days...

Emily Rae-Ann Throop decieded to enter the world through a emergncey c-section on May 7th, 2011 at 8:22am. She was born at 24 weeks gestational age. Emily weighed in at 1lbs 5ozs and was 11 3/4 inches long. She wanted to meet her daddy and mommy (Joshua and Erica Throop) on their first anniversary and get here for the Mini Marthon.

It took alot to get her stable but once she was stable was pretty good for the first 24 hours. Lots of people were excited to meet her.

The next 24 hours she started what we will be dealing with a down hill and up hill battle. Emily's lung deveolped a hole in it and need to be reinflated. They put a chest tube in and things began to look up. For the most part Emily has had really good blood pressure and have had No problems with her heart. Her blood platelets dropped dramatically. This made the decied to do her head ultrasound today instead of 10-14 days old. They were worried that she would have a bleed in the brain. But the news came back and the doctor was pleased!

Tonight I got a phone call with bad news and good news. I kept thinking that I can't handle anymore bad news! But the bad news was good news and the good news was good news! Emily is determined to get out of there! She some how got her chest tube out. Thats the bad news... the good news is shes doing fine with out it right now. They did a x-ray to be sure and it came back good. They will do another one at 4am. Let's pray it's still good!

Tonight ended on good news... Will post more tomorrow.

Josh and I ask one thing that each night you say a small prayer for Emily.