After spending about 3 annoying hours in the Emergency room, the ER doctor that saw Ella contacted Dr. Sacco at Children’s and got the okay to let us try without the N-J tube. that gives us the go ahead to go back to bottles and even nursing! I felt a full breast so I thought I’d try nursing her. She took the breast immediately and sucked her heart out on one side after the other. It’s totally amazing but by the time I took her off the breast she had this very comfortable and satisfied look on her face. Then, I tried a fake sneeze and she broke into the biggest smile I’ve seen yet (since surgery, that is)! I was so impressed….. So, Ella is really getting back to her old self, vices and all. And, just as I thought nursing was over, I guess we’ve started up again. She is making strides each day — looking more awake and alert with more squirming and kicking. She had a bath this morning and seemed more comfortable than she has ever been in the water. She still cries when moved from position to position but she seemed to really love the sensation of the bath water all around.