Day 53

It's so great walking into the NICU and seeing Alice in a crib. She's becoming a really big girl (well big in relation to where she used to be). It's a bit strange seeing these other little babies and thinking back 7 weeks to when Alice was one of the little babies. There's a teeny tiny one in the NICU right now that weighs about 500 grams. The strange thing is, this baby was born at 28 weeks. Normally 500 gram babies are around 24 weeks. I don't know anymore to the story than that.

Alice has gained more weight, so she now weighs 1835 grams. She is being fed 34cc's of food every 2 hours. She is breathing room air, so 21% oxygen.

The other cool thing is she's now in clothes. A onsie, sleeper, swaddled in a receiving blanket and then another blanket on top to finish things off so she doesn't get cold.

We had a great skin to skin cuddle today for 1 1/2 hours. She falls into a deep, deep sleep and then when it's time for her to go back to her crib, she's wide awake. So then it's time for talking and staring into her big eyes.

She's climbing the ladder right now, and hopefully she keeps climbing to the top without too many back steps now.