Changing and Growing!

Each time we go see Willa I swear she gets bigger and looks different.  I went to see her yesterday which was day 24 of her NICU stay and she was just getting ready to be switch to nasal cannula from her CPAP.  I was able to change her diaper which is getting a little easier to do, but is still a struggle with all the wires and tubes to manuever around.  The nurses sent me home with one of her diapers (unused of course) to keep for her baby book.  I thought I'd compare it to a size one diaper which is for babies 8-14 lbs.  Quite a big difference here.  The little diaper is still very big on her.

As of Thursday night, Willa is up to 1 lb 9 oz.  On Thursday morning they started doing sprinting again with Willa's oxygen devices.  She is doing 3 hours on nasal cannula and then 6 on CPAP.  She is doing very well with that.  We like it when she is on the nasal cannula because you can see her face so much better!  Her feeds are now at 13 ml's every 3 hours.  I was able to hold her for an hour and a half.  She is definitely getting stronger - she picked her head up off my chest and turned her head the opposite direction.  The nurse gave her a paci to see if she would take and she started sucking!  That is great!  She has also found her hands.  She will put them in her mouth which the nurse says is a baby's way of trying to calm herself.  She is also tugging at her nasal cannula and feeding tube.  Here is her latest picture right after they switched her over to nasal cannula.