Today we arrived at the NICU to find Jasmine off the ventilator and breathing by herself. This felt like nothing short of a miracle. She opened her eyes when we got there and stared at us. We watched her as she wriggled and squirmed and frowned and cried and laughed and smiled. So many expressions and the first time we could see them, as it was the first time we had seen her awake.
One of the nephrology specialists came and introduced himself and said that, if all goes well, he would see us tomorrow as they are transferring Jasmine out of NICU into the nephrology ward. Her right kidney is producing some urine which is a positive sign, and her creatinine levels (of which too much is a bad sign) have plateaued out.
We spent the rest of the afternoon holding her hand and watching her. We fed her a couple of times through the tube in her nose and took part of her cares.