A few liters less

The past few days have been about growing.  Annelise has been gaining weight and expanding her lung capacity.  Annelise lost some weight when they put her on breastmilk only, like most new babies do.  And she was down to 4 lb 4 oz. the weekend before her due date.  She was 5 lbs. 6.5 oz this morning!  1.5 weeks and 1 lb of growth!  Yay Annelise!  She's been an eating champ also - she started breast feeding today for 1 feeding, and is up to 5 ml once a day on the bottle.  Matt gave her a bottle today.  It's really cute!

She loves her Daddy!

We can only try feeding her through her mouth twice a day right now because they don't want her to burn too many calories.  She's doing well gaining weight, but she's still very small!  We need every calorie for growing!

Also - her left lung continues to improve and expand.  She's down to 0.5 liters at room air (21% oxygen).  Basically nothing.  She's doing very well with it.  We're excited that she's such a rock star...she powered through whatever was ailing her last week and is looking like a cute newborn baby now!  She does not really look like a preemie anymore.

Here's the comparison of how far we've come......(stole this from Matt!  He texted this to me and I thought it was amazing!)

Annelise on July 8:

Annelise Today (August 24th)

Our good friends - Jessie & Cameron Saunders had their baby girl today!  After a long labor, Jessie gave birth via c-section to Avery Anna Saunders at 3am this morning!  I'm so excited that Annelise has a playmate! Congratulations guys!