Feeling very blessed today

Macsen is doing amazingly well today. 12 hours post op he no longer has a breathing tube, chest tube and drank 1/2 an ounce by bottle. Wow!!!! All the staff says he should be the poster child for HLHs. So axing when you think how dispirited we were in May after the 1 st trip to CHOP. Now look at us!!! We are ecstatic! Just the way everything has happened - his amazing birth, the lack of space in the crowded noisy pod that made a private room for his 5 days possible. Even seeming set backs - kinking his umbilical line at birth so they had to use IVs- enabled us to hold Him sooner and start nursing as umbilical lines are tricky so staff are hesitant to let you hold them. All amazing confluences of circumstances that let us have a whole week to work on eating and bonding before the surgery. What a gift.