Day Five - Believable!

I am grateful and assured as I write this latest update on the fate of my daughter. The Lord has shown his strength in our weakness over the last few days, as we have truly been sustained by His grace, made real through many of you who have arrived with bags of food, sweet lemon meringue tart, comfort and counselling, even a digital camera so that we can record Savannah's progress and share some pic's with you.

I only wish that we could share the few movie's that we have made at every visit, monitoring her breathing and the slight improvements that we cling to like promises fulfilled. We prayed that the staff would feed her overnight so that we could have a break from the three hourly feeds, and they did. We prayed that she would continue to breathe, and she is. We prayed that she would start to take breastmilk, and she has took milk for the first time last night by nasal tube.

Progress yesterday;

* breathing has improved slightly
* started taking breastmilk by nasal tube
* still alive!

Progress today;

* continued to take milk nasally
* doctor reported that she is stable

Prayer points;

* continue to breathe
* digest milk and medicine (she only managed to take in 6 ml of the 10 ml given)
* maintains and adds weight (she needs to get up to 2 kg before she will be allowed to brestfeed)
* pneumonia will be overcome

Please feel free to post any comments of encouragement on the site (juct click on the comments link).

Thank you for all the messages of encouragement and support - I am sorry that I have not replied to each one, but we are just managing to maintain with the regular visits and the boys at home. Both of our moms came on the day of her birth and are able to stay until next Saturday - what a blessing!