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| Keepin warm with a hat! |
The infection we had to start antibiotics for is nearly gone and the doctors started her back on milk yesterday. This will help to get her weight up - we're currently around 600 grams (1.3 lbs). Ian took a great video of the nurse weighing her and changing her tiny diaper. She's such a funny little thing! She waves her arms and legs around and kicks her feet and waves her hands. Her eyes are open wide now and she is starting to make funny little facial expressions. It's probably just her stretching her facial muscles, but I swear she smiles at us.
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| I gots the Boogie Fever!!! |
The doctors also had to turn her oxygen back up as she continues to have "episodes" which consist of apnea, dropped heart rate and de-saturation of oxygen. If she continues to struggle with breathing, they will x-ray her chest and put her on a small dose of a steroid called Flovent. I've taken it a few times for my asthma. She has also had a few blood transfusions, since they need to draw her blood for tests and she is struggling to produce enough red blood cells.
Ian took a really good video of Teagan that you can watch here.
Ian and I are doing really well aside from being super tired. He's recovering from a slight sore throat that kept him home from the hospital on antibiotics for a couple of days just to be on the safe side, and I keep improving bit by bit (though I do have a tendency to push things a little too quickly!)
We've started to decorate Teagan's room at the hospital a bit with some things from home. She has a wonderful sign with her name on it on her door that one of the nurses made for her. I found some sparkly ladybug stickers yesterday and I'm adding one small ladybug for each week she is in the NICU. We are also starting to put together ideas for decorating her bedroom at home with a ladybug theme.
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| Mimi at the Redmond School of Glass |
I started back at my office half-days, who knew insurance could be so exhausting! I've been heading to the hospital after work since my office is only a couple of miles from Evergreen, and taking our pug, Edward, in the Jeep with me. He's super excited to get to go along, though I often joke that if I could just swaddle him properly, I could sneak him right into the nursery. It might be worth it just for the looks on people's faces if they stop to coo at the "baby".
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| A face only a mother could love... |
I watched the video and I cried. Don't you dare tell her that. She doesn't need to know Nena is push over this soon. You can tell Edward that he has a face that we love too...although I think he already knows that.
ReplyDeleteSam is Nendyb, your mom? I copied the video tape Ian put up on you tube, she looks so much better more alert brighter. Even looks to me as if she has gained a little weight. I cry every time I see her, and I have not been able to see her in person, and I adore, her! You can see that she is very alert and has a personality. I am so so very sure that the Kangaroo care is so great real helpful healing, and just having you there is healing and helpful, but the contact,priceless. She wasn't suppose to be on the outside with all the chaos as she developed, she was suppose to be suspended in warmth, semi-quiet, and of course if would make sense to have her contact skin on skin. Stephanie said she is very intelligent already and will be very intelligent,because she is already taking things in. Neat pic of your mom, good to see her have fun, looks very fun for her, and inspired to make her grandchild a gift! What is with all the candles and glass already, I put that stuff up high until I think they were all about 14 or more! LOL Funny, just the thought of fire and glass in a nursery makes me cringe...I am from the old school of unreasonable fear!LOL I want to know what you are planning for the nursery, you have until October, and if I ever get any money,like this month, I have none, still in debt, still couldn't pay my bills, but I am supporting 2 other people you know on very little...As soon as I can I will get up there, hopefully before she is a year old! LOL I could maybe start walking up there and get there in a month or two if lucky! Love my darling little granddaughter, with all of my heart. I smile too when I see her, she is precious!
ReplyDeleteOh and I have all kinds of books for Teagan, at her age I don't think she will be picky thought! As long as mom's voice is soft smooth and well, mom's or dad's it will be music to her ears! Ya know! I think Ian has one copy of Go Dog Go though, I am pretty sure I gave him his small collection of Dr Seuss books a couple years ago! Maybe not yet...Will get them to her one way or another, I could mail some of them! You would never know we are only like 70 miles away, may as well be in the mid-west like your parents, oh well..that's life for me..Your being a good ma to Edward too, that's real sweet trying to make up for the lost time! He probably knows something "Big" (or little in this case) is up!
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