Our first night together, part 2

Molly has moved!  She is now a patient in the rehab unit of the children's hospital, where she is in a feeding program.  The most wonderful thing about her new location?  I can spend the night!!!  So I spent her first night with her in her new, private room last night.  

I can't even express in words how wonderful it was to awaken every couple of hours (for her scheduled feedings) and get to hold her in my arms.  She slept through all of her bottles, and barely ate anything, but I didn't care. I got to hold my tiny Molly for hours last night. I got to watch her sleeping in my arms, breathing in and out, making all sorts of funny expressions in her sleep.  I got to sleep just a few feet from my precious girl, although I barely slept at all.  I stared across the dimly lit room at her. I listened to all her little peeps and grunts in the absence of beeping alarms and chatty nurses.  It was just us, for the first time.  She was all mine.  I got to be her mama and do what mamas do.  All night long.

And this morning, I woke up to my beautiful baby girl, and my heart was overflowing with love and joy and gratitude.  There is nothing in the world better than that.