Day 47

Finally remembered to bring the camera today and take some pictures. Alice is looking like a real baby now. For two weeks while she was on the other breathing machine, we didn't get to see her full head or face. The one positive about intubation is we get to see her. And she looks different and more like a baby after two weeks.

Alice was doing better today than the last couple of days. I forgot to mention she was on morphine for the pain, but that was stopped today. So she was much more alert with me this morning. The plan is to continue the antibiotics for the 5-days and then take her off (which I think is Friday, but not 100% sure).

She had a huge weight gain last night (130 grams), but I'm not sure how accurate that is as it's so big. So tomorrow's weight in will be more realistic. Perhaps the scale was off, not sure. But with this weight gain, Alice is now weighing 1765 grams (just under 4 pounds). She's getting close to doubling her birth weight. I was also chatting with a friend today who is due in January (January 18th - same day Alice was to be born) and the weight of the baby in-utero is to be 4 pounds right now. So Alice is right on schedule.

This picture above is through the plastic of the incubator so it's not the best quality, but you can see her whole body and how much bigger she is from the last set of photos.

Just waiting for her to be stable enough for cuddles again! The week isn't as hard as we thought it would be as she's doing really well. She was pretty much at 21% oxygen (room air) all day today, so that's really good.