After 13 long days, Dr. Liechty took her off of ECMO. Now it was up to her lungs to keep her blood oxygenated. Slowly (very slowly) but surely, her swelling began to go down and she began to look more and more like our beautiful little girl again.
Finally on May 8th, 38 days after giving birth to Peyton, Debbie was able to hold her for the first Time.