Friday, March 22, 2013

9p.m.

Busy day!  We saw the occupational therapist today--she basically wanted to see if she needed to add anything to supplement the physical therapy Aubrey is already getting.  She said they work with babies to try to bring things to midline--she needs to be able to bring her hands in to her mouth to feed herself later, hold her bottle or cup, things like that.  Coordination and such.  She said Aubrey did very well on the little tests she did today, and that when she saw that Aubrey was a 24 weeker she expected so much worse.  She said that she'll just pop in when we're at physical therapy to see how she's doing and assess if she needs anything more.  Aubrey grabbed toys and followed pictures and played patty-cake and cooed and smile and did all kinds of fun things she's supposed to be doing at "6 weeks" old.  We needed to feed her before we left for the next appointment, so the therapist sat and talked to us while Aubrey ate.  She finally looked at us and said, "well, she's just not loved at all, is she?"  Ha!  Nooooo, not at all. :)

our beautiful girl.

So next we headed to the pediatrician.  Aubrey weighed in at at hefty 10 pounds 1 ounce today!  Woohoo for the monster baby!  The doctor said that if she's eating well during the day and taking a feeding at midnight and early morning, she doesn't see any reason why she can't skip the 3a.m. feeding and leave the feeding tube out.  She's having us come back in a week to make sure Aubrey is still gaining weight without the tube feedings, so pray that she keeps doing well with the bottles!  We asked the doctor about 2,000 questions...ok, maybe only 1,000, but whatever.  She can go to work with me but needs to stay upstairs (not downstairs with the birds) for another couple of weeks.  She can go out in public (church, store, etc.) but just use common sense--don't pass her from person to person, make sure anyone that holds her is well and has washed up.  She can eat if she's hungry before it's been 3 hours since her last feeding, but don't let her go more than 5 hours without eating.  She said that we're doing really well--it's nice to hear that from a doctor considering we think we have no clue and are winging it most of the time.

striking a pose in her sleep...I think she's been photographed too much...

-Keli