Anthony Halls: Day 100

I didn't think we would reach 100 days, but it has happened. My due date was Monday the 9th. Willa is now term and her adjusted age is now 3 days old. We have reached frustration level and beyond. I think now we are at the point of just going with the flow now, which is much more relaxing. I received a letter from my mom in the mail this week and she said "getting frustrated doesn't help anything". That is so true so I have decided I'm not going to let myself get frustrated any longer. I think we have now learned and conquered the virtue of patience.

Willa's eating has slowed down her journey home. She has been improving with her nippling. The nurse practitioner decided to back off on offering Willa a bottle at every feeding and see if she can finish some bottles. Today she finished 3 out of the 4 bottles she was offered during the day. This is a great improvement! Her problem is her endurance. A full term baby can do "suck bursts" of 20-30 sucks. Willa's suck bursts are only about 5 or 6 sucks. She started out with just 2 to 3 sucks per burst when she first started nippling. So we are getting there, it is just a slow process.

Willa reached 6 pounds this week! She is quite the little chunk. The nurses say she looks more and more like her daddy every day. We both agree as well. She also looks like she just came from the barber with a fresh buzz cut. She lost all the hair on the top of her head a few weeks ago and now it has finally grown back and it really does look like she just got a crew cut. Its a good thing we dress her in pink or people would probably mistake her for a boy!

We have finished her nursery...all we need is a baby!

Here is her "crib" now -