Hoping to wear this in October.

big girl

Loves her bumbo!!!

Just checking in

Nina girl weighed in yesterday at 8.7.
She's doing great with her bottles. Drinking almost 4 oz each feed. We are looking forward to getting our latest download for the apnea monitor to see how she is doing and hopefully be done with that.
Update: Apnea monitor getting picked up tomorrow!! Nina is finally free!!

First Dip in the Pool

Oh yes! Could not resist! Super cute two piece..we had to do it!

This trip in the pool lasted less than 10 minutes
(enough time for video and photos)

She's doing great. 8 pounds and getting "solid" as her Grandpa calls it.

Now hear this!

Yesterday we went to CHOP for Nina's ABR test.We were to keep her up all morning so she would sleep for test. The day was great! We walked around Penn campus, fed her and she fell asleep just in time for her test. They put three probes on her. (one behind each ear and one on her frontal lobe) then they put little earphones in each ear and measured how her brain stem reacted to different frequency tones. It took about an hour, she started to wake up so that's why it ended... Her right ear checked out normal and the left ear has some fluid in the middle part causing her to have mild hearing loss. They said she could not hear whispers in her left ear.When they checked the inner part of her left ear she could hear the more lower tones so we know it is the fluid that's causing this. We go back in two months for repeat test. Until then we are to talk to Ped to see what he wants to do about the fluid... I asked if this was preemie related and the audiologist there could not tell me for sure.

We have what I think may be our last nurse visit tomorrow. I think Nina will be 8 pounds at least.. She 's doing pretty great! She smiles a lot and loves sucking on her fingers and is eating well for us. It takes some time, she is not sucking down 3+ oz in record time, but she is getting it down and we are thankful.

Early Intervention Take One

The EI people came today to access Nina. She did great. They came during her lunch and Nina showed off her sucking/swallowing skills. After Nina's meal, the OT lady took her on the floor and did a bunch of things like muscle tone activies and head control and tracking stuff. Nina did great and she's accessed between 1-2 months adjusted which is where we figured. The EI people said that she will just be on their tracking(keep the case open) they will send me some checklists so we can see how Nina measures up each month and then they will call in 3 months to see if see is meeting her 4 month milestones.

Are you ready for some football?!

Whenever I see your smiling face

In this pic I was calling Nina a bad girl b/c she would only take 2 and a half oz for me this morning. Looks like she has teeth with all that formula on her tongue. She's about 7 and a half oz now. Her hair is pretty much gone. We are out of preemie clothes and in to 0-3 months. GO US!

D/C this baby!

Weight 7.2
Pulse Ox: Discontinue
Oxygen: Discontinue
Car Seat: Nope, Ped still wants us to use the car bed until she gets a tad bigger.
Can't win them all...
It's cool! I am just glad to get the smelly O2 tanks out of here!

Home Schooling

Since we have the pulse ox, I decided to put Nina in the car seat and see if she can handle the big girl car for 2 hours. She passed my test. She sated 95-98 and HR was nice and steady. I am calling ped tomorrow with the news and hopefully he will let us use the car seat. See ya car bed!!!
We have not really been using the pulse ox for feeds like we should be. She was doing so well, and that thing is so damn annoying, we thought best just to do spot checks on her.
Tomorrow Cindy, our nurse, comes to weigh her etc..I am betting on the 7 pound goal!! Nina has downed 21 oz in the past 24 hours!! growth sprut? fluke? I'll take it.