Nina's been home 14 weeks!

This is a big weekend for us because Nina has been home with us for as long as she was in the hospital! --

So weight wise ( We Preemie Moms love weighing in)
Born: 3-11-07 1.3
Discharge: 6-21-07 4.3
Total gained in first 14 weeks of life in NICU: 3 pounds

Today 9-28-07 Nina weighs 10.9 ounces!!!
Total gained in the last 14 weeks since home: 6.6 pounds

I think it's the sunshine and high humidity of the Philly suburbs that helped her grow!

LET'S GO PHILS

Feeding Fun

Today is day three of the cereal fun and she took 1 Tablespoon mixed with 40cc! It's just hard to determine how much she actually took in b/c a lot ends up on the bib and her face... (I am trying not to be nutty about this, but us preemie moms love to account for every cc! I will try to remain zen about the cereal experience)
Then she drank a 80 cc bottle. Please keep eating for me Nina!! In a 24 hour she is taking about 23-24 oz. PLUS we graduated to level 3 Dr Brown nipples! Go Nina!
I am not sure if she was doing this before, but this week she is really taking an interest in watching me eat during the day. She's just being the big girl! She watches and smiles, she's just so cute...
She's been sleeping through the night too since Monday. Could that be b/c we started cereal at lunchtime?

We have a big weekend coming up, Jason is getting inducted into his High School Hall of Fame for football. Then on Sunday we are going to Ambler with our good friends for an Octobestfest street fair!

First try at cereal

Dr had given us the OK to start Nina on cereal last week, but I was hesitant b/c she was still tongue thrusting a lot then...she has really lessened up on that reflex so I gave it a try this afternoon.
She did surprisingly well. I mixed only 1 tsp with some formula and she smiled the whole way through it. Every time smiled, her mouth kinda opened and that's when the spoon went in. I have no idea how much she actually ate b/c she was wearing a lot of it. But she was very pleasant the entire time. Dr wants me to try once a day and give her as much as she wants then check back in 6 weeks.

NEWS FLASH!

We never thought this day would come, but our mini 1 pound preemie has made it to 10 pounds!!!!

Blog update

We are changing the name of this blog to Checkingonnina.blogspot.com
Please update you favorites. We are changing over Monday afternoon.

Also, we are going to make this an invite only site, so you would need to let me know if you want an invite to be able to log on to site: jadfox01@yahoo.com

Nina's first trip to the Jersey Shore

Packed up and went to Ocean City, NJ for an overnight . Beautiful weather and we did great for our first family trip.