Weekend Update with Anchorman Daddy
Ok, Friday and Saturday went really well. She is down on her oxygen and may can go down on her pressure on Sunday. Lots of medications are not NO longer needed. Morphine, Zantac and her synthetic thyroid medicine are all done.
She is only on caffiene and her lung treatments. The caffiene is to make sure their is no moments of apnea(that is where she will stop breathing for longer than 20 seconds). She only has a slight crackle in the lungs so the treatments are working.
She has been bundled tightly the last 3 days and we are 1111 grams of weight. 2lb 6 oz.
It is a thrill to watch her growing everyday, and not in weight or height, I mean in mind.
She can follow movement somewhat, she has a longer alert period, she enjoys physical contact, she smiles more. It is amazing everyday by watching the differences in her abilities.
She has the ability to turn herself over. She enjoys sucking her fingers and sucking a pacifier. She is learning to handle talking and noise. She can turn her head and she does VERY well at pulling her feeding tube out.
I don't think you understand how incredible it is to WATCH what should be happening inside the womb. Babies do so much in that womb, and now due to 3 dimensional ultrasounds, we are learning that they practice stretching, sucking thumbs, working their lips, and doing all kinds of things to prepare for what happens next. Now I get to see some of that. She will purse her lips, work her tongue, and after being unbundled....she will SSSSTTTTRRRREEEEETTTTTCCCCHHHH. It is the cutest things to watch her push all of her 14 inches as far as she can to get a full on stretch. Amazing. Arms up, legs down, yawning. Lots of yawning. So cute and amazing.
Tomorrow I will be creating her CD to have in the isolette. It will have music on it and me telling stories in between. I will make new cd's every week and get them to keep her soothed with playing it. Yes, it will include her favorite in utero song "Superman"!
I can't wait to update you on how she interacts with the music and stories. That is going to be interesting to watch. There are many stories of music and the womb, I want to re-create that. We also will be massaging her as it has been shown to increase her growth by 50% and moving her discharge day up by an average of 8 days. So we will see how that goes. We are using breaking science and using every bit of it to give her the best chance that she can have.
Here is a study on babies remembering the music for at least a year.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/babies_music_010711.html
It all helps make good neurological synapses and that helps the cognitive ability.
She is only on caffiene and her lung treatments. The caffiene is to make sure their is no moments of apnea(that is where she will stop breathing for longer than 20 seconds). She only has a slight crackle in the lungs so the treatments are working.
She has been bundled tightly the last 3 days and we are 1111 grams of weight. 2lb 6 oz.
It is a thrill to watch her growing everyday, and not in weight or height, I mean in mind.
She can follow movement somewhat, she has a longer alert period, she enjoys physical contact, she smiles more. It is amazing everyday by watching the differences in her abilities.
She has the ability to turn herself over. She enjoys sucking her fingers and sucking a pacifier. She is learning to handle talking and noise. She can turn her head and she does VERY well at pulling her feeding tube out.
I don't think you understand how incredible it is to WATCH what should be happening inside the womb. Babies do so much in that womb, and now due to 3 dimensional ultrasounds, we are learning that they practice stretching, sucking thumbs, working their lips, and doing all kinds of things to prepare for what happens next. Now I get to see some of that. She will purse her lips, work her tongue, and after being unbundled....she will SSSSTTTTRRRREEEEETTTTTCCCCHHHH. It is the cutest things to watch her push all of her 14 inches as far as she can to get a full on stretch. Amazing. Arms up, legs down, yawning. Lots of yawning. So cute and amazing.
Tomorrow I will be creating her CD to have in the isolette. It will have music on it and me telling stories in between. I will make new cd's every week and get them to keep her soothed with playing it. Yes, it will include her favorite in utero song "Superman"!
I can't wait to update you on how she interacts with the music and stories. That is going to be interesting to watch. There are many stories of music and the womb, I want to re-create that. We also will be massaging her as it has been shown to increase her growth by 50% and moving her discharge day up by an average of 8 days. So we will see how that goes. We are using breaking science and using every bit of it to give her the best chance that she can have.
Here is a study on babies remembering the music for at least a year.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/babies_music_010711.html
It all helps make good neurological synapses and that helps the cognitive ability.
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