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Sophie Update

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Thank you so much for your continued prayers. We love you all for your love and support. Here is the update from this morning:

She is off of the big oxygen and Ash and I were finally able to see her cute little face. She doesn't look anything like Lily so far :) We are so happy to see that her respiratory health is improving. She has started taking some of Ashleys milk that she has been pumping through a tube which we are very excited about.

On the flip side, there are still a lot of unknowns. They found group b strep in her placenta and are worried that that is what has caused all of this. Her red blood cell counts are decreasing and may need a blood transfusion. They may need to up the antibiotics...

We are trying our best to focus on the positive and look for the little miracles because we know there are many. We continue to focus on our family scripture found in D&C 123:17 "Therefore, dearly beloved...let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power, and then may we stand still, with the utmost assurance, to see the salvation of God, and for His arm to be revealed"

We have been fasting and praying and know that many of you have as well. Thank you so much. We are so grateful for you! We will keep you posted and hopefully continue to get some good photos of our precious baby girl.

All our love,

Jon, Ashley, Lily and Sophie

Baby Sophie Update

Dear family and friends:

Well, Sophie came into the world with a bang and is now having to be a bit of a fighter. She was born with a punctured lung and has an infection. She is also running a fever and because of all of this she will be in the NICU for at least 10 days. We are trying to keep our spirits up. Ash is doing well. We just really want to snuggle on our little Sophie.

Please keep Sophie in your prayers that she will be able to get off her oxygen and that she will be able to battle this infection and come home.

Love,

Jon

Our 100th post!!!!!

Wow. This is our 100th post... we have been trying to pick up the slack lately with our countdowns... but I am sure we will be back blogging again with the addition of our little girl Sophie sometime this month! Hurray! Poor Ash is in horrible pain right now... she has a pinched nerve and is struggling to do just about everything right now. She is a trooper. I have a tremendous amount of respect for her and women everywhere for their hard work in bringing these little kids here to earth. Mad props.

Here is a commercial we were just in for Ivory Homes to celebrate our 100th post! It goes by quick... see if you can see us (don't mind me... jon... I am more awkward than anything)!

Love,

The Lefrandt Family