Baby Faith

The past few days Faith has been going up and down on her respiration. She will be at a certain setting and her monitor will go off, so the nurse would go to adjust it and then she would be to high or to low. She's been keeping the nurses on thier toes. This morning we finally got a nurse that knows what he's doing and gave her a cleaning of her lifetime. He suctioned her really good and got all of the mocos out that she had in there for a while. He cleaned her up with baby oil, now she looks and smell better. He cleaned her mouth inside and out and took off all the crusties that she had. Now that she's clean, she can show off her new belly button. After she was all settled in it looked like she was doing much better and had her respiration more under control.
We went to Othello yesterday to pick up her big brother becasuse he was homesick and he missed his mommy, so now he is here with us. I know we haven't been posting the last few days but when there's no big changes we really don't have anything to say. We all just have to keep being united and keep praying for Faith. We keep on believing that God will do His will and one day we will testify of His glory and Baby Faith will one day be a great woman of God.... Daddy

Delma Faith Gomez

Well today was yet another good day for baby faith. She gained one more ounce, she's now 1 pound and 2 ounces. She is responding really well to the all the suctions that she gets in her tubes. She wouldnt take them very well before. Her heart rate would drop drasticly and she would stop breathing for a second, but now she doesn't even feel them. The nurses gave her a nickname, they're calling her thumbleina because she's so little. She had a little bit of high sugar but nothing to be alarmed about. There's not much to say because she's been stable for a few days and she's been doing really good and no drastic changes. I feel priviledged to be witness to an ongoing miracle that God has performed right before my very eyes. I cant wait til the day that I can take my baby for the first time to church and testify to everyone the almighty glory of my God. My son Welly is here with us and it's good to see him atleast on the weekeends. It's not easy for him or for us to be away from eachother for so long but we all know that this is not for ever. We serve a God that has his time for everything and I will accept anything that He brings my way. I will serve Him with my all and be forever grateful to Him. Thank you Lord... Daddy

First family picture

Delma Faith is 2 weeks old today. Such a brave girl facing this world and its pains and troubles when should still be growing inside my womb, turning only 27 weeks.

Every day when the doctor calls or walks in the room, I stop breathing, not knowing what he's going to say, but these last few days, when the doctor talks to us, he doesn't know what to say, just that she's doing good, and all I can say is Praise God!!!! Halleluya!! Today was another good day for Faith, they started her back on the milk.

I'll never forget Welly's face when he saw Faith for the first time, he was nervous since he walked in the NICU. It was a miracle they actually let him go in, the rule is no one under 12 can go in, but I asked nicely and they made an exception. Welly's eyes opened wide when he saw her and the first word he said was WOW!, he told her he loved her and thats about it. They said good bye, its sad but they wont see each other again for a few months. After we left he had questions, like why are her eyes open, would they be open if she was still inside?
Well this picture is the first picture of the 4 of us, the baby was facing us, because thats how she was laying and Welly wasn't supposed to go to the other side of the bed. I'm happy to have Welly here at least for the weekend, I miss him so much, I can't wait to go home and be with both of my kids...soon, soon.................Delma

Faith doing better

Well today Baby Faith is doing much better. That infection that she had is becoming less and less every day. We can feel the power of prayer every time we walk into her room. God keeps on doing what He's doing through her every day more and more. I wonder if she knows who I am every time she sees me and makes facial expressions at me. I melt every time I see her. I look at her and I lose all my manlyness and I start talking to her in a wierd voice and I don't care who is watching. The love for a child is a unique kind of love that surpasses all others, it's unconditional. There's no way to explain the love that's felt unless you've been in my shoes. Today mommy bought her some little bows and put them on her. She doesn't have enough hair on her head so she just laid it on there for the picture (she looked so beautiful). She's looking more "werita" every day more and more. She had her eyes wide open all day today when we would do the care. The care is when mommy and I go and do the nurse's job. We check her temperature, change her diaper, and the nurse suctions her breathing tube. We do that every four hours. To God be the glory that my baby is doing so much better. Thanks again for all the prayers. "Keep the Faith"...........Daddy

1lb. 1oz.

Today was a good day for our big 1 pound 1 ounce Faith. She's recovering well from the infection and was using less oxygen. Thank you Jesus!!! She was wide awake and very active all the times we visit her, I think she recognizes our voices because she's very attentive when we talk to her. We caught her sucking her thumb at one of the visits, she looked so cute, but Phil forgot the camera so we didn't take a picture, geez!
On the picture on top she's holding my ring, I lent it to her for the picture and she wanted to keep it forever, I told her it was hers, she can wear it as a bracelet for now. I love her so much, I never thought I could love anyone else like I love my Welly, I was soooooo wrong.I didn't think I could get along with a girl in the family, but Faith and I are like the bestest of friends. I'll never forget how proud I felt one of the times I walk in and her nurse asks me: are you Delma's mom? Wow, it felt good to say: yes thats my daugther..........Delma

The new blog

Well so far my little angel is hanging in there. She's got her momma's strength to fight anything that comes her way. She's on a respirator right now and they are slowly trying to wing her off of it, but we know that is going to take a while, since she's so small.  She has blood in the left part of her brain and it's starting to coagulate and is plugging up pores that absorb fluid that comes from the spine. There is a small excess of fluid in her brain that might need to be removed if continues to accumulate, but the neurosurgeon say that she is to little to put any kind of drain in her head.  The fluid hasn't grown in the last five days (so that's good). They expected there to be a lot more than the last time they checked.  We are praying for that fluid to find a way to flow through where it is supposed to, so that she doesn't need a drain.  She also has a bacterial infection that they say might be caused by one of the tubes in her bellybutton. They've started her on antibiotics yesterda and they've removed that tube today.  The antibiotics are doing a good job and it looks like she's doing a little better.  After they took out the tube from her belly they replaced it with one on her arm. 
 Today our pastors Isaias & Lucy and Modesto & Lupita came to visit.  We feel very blessed to have such great spiritual leaders that pray and encourage us.  I want to thank everyone for the gifts, the words of encouragement, and especially for the prayers.  I could honestly feel the love and compassion for us, I can't repay all the things that you all have done for us but God has a special place in heaven for people like you. THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart.  God bless you!! ........Daddy