Day 89 - Chubby Lady

Howdy! Brooklyn wanted to say hi to everyone and let you know she's getting some serious chubbiness now that she weighs 5 pounds 11 ounces. She has the cutest little elbow dimples and fat rolls now! In fact, she's so chubby now that they've put her on several diets and decided to even take her off the protein shake yesterday. This is good news because that extra shake gave her lots of baby gas, causing her to turn a nice shade of heirloom tomato red.

Other than that, it's been relatively uneventful here at the NICU. Brooklyn is still on a very low amount of oxygen from the low-flow cannula, which she mainly needs during her feedings. This is B's final and biggest challenge: coordinating the suck, swallow, breathe routine. She's getting great at chuggin' some milk without turning blue, but doing all that eating takes a lot of work. After about 15cc's of a bottle feeding, Brooklyn tends to say "Sleep time!" and is off to dream of binkies and CPAP wars.

Brooklyn also had her fourth ROP exam today. Unfortunately, they did find a small amount of Level 1 ROP, however, her eye doctors were amazed she went four exams without showing any ROP! Needless to say, they will be checking her eyes every week now to make sure the ROP does not progress, but so far there is nothing to be concerned about with her cute little eyes.

Here are some photos of B from the past few days: