Hanging Around

Summer is flying by so fast. Yesterday we went back to that little zoo in NJ that you can feed the animals. This year Nina got the treat to feed a giraffe. It was super cool!! This zoo has 9 giraffes where the Philly zoo only has 2. Aug is shaping up to be a busy month with 2 trips to the shore and Maine vaca.

Nina is doing good. She has many cuts and scrapes on her knees from her runs. She was D/C from PT so I am looking forward to seeing this final report. They said she can keep up with her peers so they d/ced her.

We are enrolling her in dance and maybe karate in the fall.

It's been 3 years since (6/21/07) Nina came home from her long long stay in the hospital.

It's just amazing looking at her now and how she has grown into this awesome, smart, fun kid!

I come across blogs where moms are going through the beginning of life in the NICU. It's just heartbreaking and sometimes I cannot believe I was once in their footsteps. But we get through it, we put one foot in front of the other and drive ourselves to the hospital and be with our baby.

We do it because that's our job.

It's true, we do not know how strong we are until we have to be.

Hello out there!

What to say? This morning we are going to Ped for a growth check. She is about 30 pounds and 35 inches.
Nina is almost 40 months old. She has grown 1/4 inch since March.
She is great is the weight dept but kinda behind in the height.
Not sure what Ped will say about it.Blood work? Not sure. Some of my fellow preemie moms have gone down the blood work route and found nothing...

It just makes me nuts when the Doc tell me that her height has nothing to do with being born 4 months early. That my 5/5 and Jason's 5/11 height determine her final outcome...I am finding that to be bullshit when your kid was 1/3 and 11 inches long at birth.