I was discharged from the hospital on Friday. Unfortunatly Gracie had to stay. She isn't eating enough to leave the hospital yet.

She is in the NICU and sleeps all the time. I finally saw her open her eyes for the first time today. She is a bit jaundice so they are checking her bilirubin level tomorrow. They are thinking the reason she is sleeping so much is because of her level.

I have been keeping in touch with St. Louis Children's since Gracie does have some kidney issues. The hospital she is in right now have diagnosed her with Polycystic kidney disease. STL., myself and my Maternal fetal medicine doctor are not convinced that's what it is. It would be strange for her and Gillian to have 2 different kidney problems. STL told me when the kidneys are small it is very easy to misdiagnose polycystic kidneys.

Right now the plan is to try and get Gracie eating so she can come home. Then Mike and I will be taking her to STL for another ultrasound there and some blood work. They ran some kidney levels the first couple days she was in the NICU and they were not that great. I was hoping for better. They were worse than what Gillian's were when she was a baby. I am hoping once she is a week or so old and peeing more they will go down some. We did so well avoiding dialysis with Gillian I really don't want to put Grace through it. The word Dialysis is more scary to me than transplant.

I will let you know if anything else comes up.