Today is Bea's two week birthday. Her adjusted age is 34 weeks and 2 days. Yesterday she migrated to her big girl bed. They took her out of her incubator and put her in a normal bed. She's holding her temperature really well so they wheeled away the incubator. It's very possible she'll need to go back in the incubator if she can't hold her temperature quite yet, but so far so good. She has to be really bundled up since she has less body fat then Melissa and I did in high school which is really saying something.
Her weight bottomed out on day three and she's steadily been gaining about an ounce a day to reach 3 lbs 15.7 ounces today. In the last day she gained two ounces. What's really impressive is her solid and fluid "waste" was 10 ounces a couple of days ago. That's over 25% of her body mass. That's impressive.
Beatrice Anita R. [no last names on the internet]. We knew her initials would be BAR and we figured she'd just be really cool in college. What we didn't realize until recently was if she buys one of those fancy monogramed sweaters it'll be BRA. So much for monograms. Almost as interesting is her two initials will be BR, as in Brrrrrr, please put me back in my incubator.
Tomorrow Melissa gets to have her first nice dinner out in quite a while, which might be the last nice dinner out in quite a while. Of course with her new motherhood responsibilities she has a short window to be out.
2 comments:
Matt,Missy
Thanks for the updates on Bea shes beautiful. I would ask grandpa how shes doing everyday and now that hes starting his new job I will be checking the blog daily to see how she is doing keep the pictures coming
Take Care
Carolyn
Bea is gorgeous! Congrats to you both. I continue to keep you all in my thoughts and prayers. Melissa - I hope your body is recovering from all the bed rest and enjoying its new best friend - the pump!
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