12/3 - 7 lb 3.5 oz - a little short
We needed to be 3500 grams and we are 3260 by December 4th to make the chart. BUT we are a lot closer than expected.
She is eating very well, taking 50 cc bottles in minutes. One burp and lay down time. There are times she struggles and then there are times she does not. It really depends on her mood, happy time, no reflux. Weird. But she is definitely getting stronger. Much stronger. Some of the burps she does would have sent a flood, but now she just burps.
We are increasing the bottle to 55 cc's to see if we can get more and more in her. So we started at 40 when we came home a little over 3 weeks ago, now we are going to 55. Not bad.
Doing real well. She has periods of need now, where she has to be held or paid attention to. She is noticing it is us. She is realizing her hand is a good sucking tool.
I have a couple of books to see where developmentally she should be as compared to normal babies and right now, with adjusted age, she is doing very very well. We are almost right on for wht the books say. We can hold up our head, track things with our eyes, make sounds for fun, play, smile on command, recognize sounds, scoot across the floor, sit up, pull our legs up, everything a two month old baby should be able to do.
But she is almost 5 months old....yeah, but remember, we have to go by adjusted age, she is out the womb 5 months, 3 of those were too early. For developmental items, we can't count what she was finishing in the womb out here in our atmosphere.
SO everything is going well. As of the feed right now after her bath, she must have gotten a little too excited, becasue we had a little spit, maybe 5-7 cc's but she ignored it and is now on another bottle of 30 after her 55. So a total intake before bed, 76-80 cc's of milk. Not bad. Oh yeah, I bought a little jar of carrots, we syringed them into her mouth, first time, no. Second time, YEAH! She took a teaspoon of carrots today in between feedings. That is good, it tides her over and PREPARES her for solid foods in the next couple of weeks.
The texture is different and some preemies don't eat solids til 5-6 years of age. Personally, they had some really really bad reflux, maybe not the right bottles, maybe different milk composition, but wow, we are not going to be like that. We are staying the course of development. Really we are right on it right now, would like for her to be a little ahead soon. I think we will be ahead by February. Yep.
By then we should also be alot of regular baby, unmonitored and unoxygen.
Valentine's day present huh? Not bad.
Getting a Christmas tree this weekend, she is going to stare at that forever. She loves little lights and the TV cartoons. Only Boomerang, the old school cartoons, the new ones are crap.
She is eating very well, taking 50 cc bottles in minutes. One burp and lay down time. There are times she struggles and then there are times she does not. It really depends on her mood, happy time, no reflux. Weird. But she is definitely getting stronger. Much stronger. Some of the burps she does would have sent a flood, but now she just burps.
We are increasing the bottle to 55 cc's to see if we can get more and more in her. So we started at 40 when we came home a little over 3 weeks ago, now we are going to 55. Not bad.
Doing real well. She has periods of need now, where she has to be held or paid attention to. She is noticing it is us. She is realizing her hand is a good sucking tool.
I have a couple of books to see where developmentally she should be as compared to normal babies and right now, with adjusted age, she is doing very very well. We are almost right on for wht the books say. We can hold up our head, track things with our eyes, make sounds for fun, play, smile on command, recognize sounds, scoot across the floor, sit up, pull our legs up, everything a two month old baby should be able to do.
But she is almost 5 months old....yeah, but remember, we have to go by adjusted age, she is out the womb 5 months, 3 of those were too early. For developmental items, we can't count what she was finishing in the womb out here in our atmosphere.
SO everything is going well. As of the feed right now after her bath, she must have gotten a little too excited, becasue we had a little spit, maybe 5-7 cc's but she ignored it and is now on another bottle of 30 after her 55. So a total intake before bed, 76-80 cc's of milk. Not bad. Oh yeah, I bought a little jar of carrots, we syringed them into her mouth, first time, no. Second time, YEAH! She took a teaspoon of carrots today in between feedings. That is good, it tides her over and PREPARES her for solid foods in the next couple of weeks.
The texture is different and some preemies don't eat solids til 5-6 years of age. Personally, they had some really really bad reflux, maybe not the right bottles, maybe different milk composition, but wow, we are not going to be like that. We are staying the course of development. Really we are right on it right now, would like for her to be a little ahead soon. I think we will be ahead by February. Yep.
By then we should also be alot of regular baby, unmonitored and unoxygen.
Valentine's day present huh? Not bad.
Getting a Christmas tree this weekend, she is going to stare at that forever. She loves little lights and the TV cartoons. Only Boomerang, the old school cartoons, the new ones are crap.
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