3 pound turkey

Willa reached 3 pounds today!  She has been doing alot of growing lately.  She gained a pound in 16 days.  That is right at an ounce per day.  The nurses tell me she really makes the nurse practitioners and doctors use their knowledge to come up with just the right "formula" for her feeds.  The nurses have a very specific recipe to follow when mixing up her food.  They reassure me they will have it much simpler by the time she goes home :)
Willa was introduced to her first nipple feed on Thanksgiving day.  She was such a trooper and took over half of it!  She was pretty wore out and the rest of the feeding was done through her NG tube.  Today she took her whole feeding from the bottle!  She will be fed one to two bottles per day to start out with until she gets the stamina to work her way up to all feeds from a bottle.  She is not able to breastfeed at this point because she requires the special "formula" to give her the calories she needs to grow. 
She is slowly being weaned off her oxygen.  She is down to 1 liter and usually around 25% oxygen. 
Nothing much else has changed.  She just continues to grow and get stronger which is what she needs to do.  She is a baby of many expressions.  The nurses say she has a very concerned look on her face.  She has started to smile quite a bit when she is awake.
As promised, here are some pictures from the week -

practicing her sucking

Willa's first try with nipple feeds

Our first Thanksgiving together