To release!!!
Annelise is 2 months old TODAY!
She's been doing very well lately! She's taking all of her meals by mouth now. Every feeding time she's awake for, they attempt to feed her with a bottle. When I'm there, I nurse. She can take up to 50 ml (a little over 1.5 oz) each meal. Whatever she doesn't eat goes through her NG tube. She's waking up at her meal times, and she's usually hungry! She does this cute little shaking of her head with her mouth open when she's hungry.
She's obviously getting stronger and eating more, she's weighing in at a whopping 6lb 3oz as of this morning! My big girl is growing up so quickly.
Right now, the only thing holding us back from being released is her reflux. She's on erithromycin until Tuesday. (It's an antibiotic, but has an off-label use to help stomach emptying quicker, which helps reflux.) Once she's off of it, they're going to watch her for 3-5 days, and then we're coming home! I cannot wait to walk out of that NICU with my baby! We already have at least 1 doctor's appointment our first week home.....meeting the pediatrician. I'm excited that our pediatrician has office hours at night and on weekends. So I don't have to bring Annelise to the ER when I'm having an over-protective/new mom freak out over something minor!
Matt and I have been busy getting ready for her arrival home, and Matt has been getting adjusted to being back to school. School started last week, and poor Matt hasn't seen his baby girl in a few days. He's exhausted after work and was recently not feeling well. Annelise misses him too, but we've been making and sending videos to Daddy while he's at work and we're at CHOP.
Pray that our release date IS next weekend (we know things can change quickly) and that it goes smoothly!
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