Holiday Extra Update with Anchorman Daddy
Two days into the Labor day weekend and not much has happened except
that we GRADUATED TO SPECIAL CARE!!
That's right, we are now in room 6.......the room closest to coming home. We are now in our final spot until home.
We are looking at 8 more weeks.
What this means is that we are now stable enough to be away from the critical babies. We are in a quieter room, the nurses are now going to begin getting her to be more baby-like, like testing her suckling ability and swallowing capacity to prepare her for breast feeding. She enters the new phase of her care, the grow and be a baby phase.
In this new quieter environment, probably for the next two weeks, she will stay sleeping, then once her growth gets moving a little on the heavy side, then more holding, more interaction, more scheduling of feeds, more of everything closer to babyness.
We are up a little on our food, we are now at 2.2 cc's an hour, not the best comeback, but at least it is more than none. We still have our eye exam on Tuesday......all is not over with that. Special care or not, that is the most important thing in the world.
BUT let us not take anything from the graduation...if critical care is behind us, then we have made progress.
Woohoo!
Now let's look at this from a weird perspective....she was scheduled to be born on 10/4, she has to get to the feeding point by then, as she would have needed it by then. She had some setbacks to her ?womb?critical care? growth but it is really time to pour on the growing and get ready for birth number 2.
Realize all we have witnessed on this child, realize all that she has overcome. She honestly has beaten the odds to be with us today. The struggle continues, but today, it is a little easier as we stepped a measurable bit forward.
I can't wait to give my report on how our days in special care have started out!
that we GRADUATED TO SPECIAL CARE!!
That's right, we are now in room 6.......the room closest to coming home. We are now in our final spot until home.
We are looking at 8 more weeks.
What this means is that we are now stable enough to be away from the critical babies. We are in a quieter room, the nurses are now going to begin getting her to be more baby-like, like testing her suckling ability and swallowing capacity to prepare her for breast feeding. She enters the new phase of her care, the grow and be a baby phase.
In this new quieter environment, probably for the next two weeks, she will stay sleeping, then once her growth gets moving a little on the heavy side, then more holding, more interaction, more scheduling of feeds, more of everything closer to babyness.
We are up a little on our food, we are now at 2.2 cc's an hour, not the best comeback, but at least it is more than none. We still have our eye exam on Tuesday......all is not over with that. Special care or not, that is the most important thing in the world.
BUT let us not take anything from the graduation...if critical care is behind us, then we have made progress.
Woohoo!
Now let's look at this from a weird perspective....she was scheduled to be born on 10/4, she has to get to the feeding point by then, as she would have needed it by then. She had some setbacks to her ?womb?critical care? growth but it is really time to pour on the growing and get ready for birth number 2.
Realize all we have witnessed on this child, realize all that she has overcome. She honestly has beaten the odds to be with us today. The struggle continues, but today, it is a little easier as we stepped a measurable bit forward.
I can't wait to give my report on how our days in special care have started out!
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