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I started writing this post on Sloan's 2 week birthday...but time has gotten away from me (and she's not even home yet! I'm really going to disappear once she comes home). Here are some of her latest stats:
1640 grams (3 pounds, 10 oz). She's had 4 straight days of positive weight gain!
Feeds are up to 30ml and she takes them in 30 minutes now (originally feeds took 2 hours).
Bradys - averaging about 1 a day for the past week or so.
She is doing a great job regulating her temperature, so they have her in a shirt & swaddle now.
She hates her feeding tube and tries to pull it out daily. The other day when I was there she got about 4-5 inches of it out before we had to push it back down. The next step before she can actually have it taken out is to take her feeds via bottle. They introduced bottles to her on Tuesday afternoon, but she was not crazy about it. However, Wednesday afternoon she took a whole 10ml via bottle! Thursday and today she has been less enthusiastic and only taken ~5ml per try (when she will try). Babies typically learn the suck/breathe/swallow reflex 34-35 weeks - which is why full term babies have no problem feeding - but with Sloan being so small, she is just a bit behind. But once it clicks, it clicks - so we think next week will be better.
There is talk about taking her off the caffeine next week - maybe Monday or Tuesday - depending on how her bradys go this weekend. Once that happens it takes 7 days for the caffeine to clear her system, then she must show 5 "episode free" days before being declared brady-free. Of course, we also have to master the eating thing, so we've still got work to do.
She poops on Mom during kangaroo care all the time and she threw up (through her nose) on Dad yesterday. It's like she's a real baby or something!
Now for some of our latest pictures...working on a larger album, but there are just so. many. pictures.
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| Proud Dad |
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| Shhhhh! Sleepy Baby |
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| This was the day she took 10ml via bottle... |
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| ...then she promptly fell asleep in Mom's arms |
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| A kiss from Mom |
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| Special time with Dad |
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| Funny face! |
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| Squirmy baby |
1 comment:
My friend she is a real baby! Glad to hear she christened her Daddy. What a great report! And I love the UGA booties from her game day pics!
Give her a high five from us and let her know we're proud of her and everything she mastering!
Love,
Deb
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