Amelia is 6 days old today! I am sitting in a chair next to her open crib (she graduated from an incubator to an open crib yesterday!) watching her rest. She is now 1825 grams, so just a smudge over 4 lbs, which is pretty awesome. She is just about the cutest thing ever, with her perfectly round head and teeny tiny body. She is literally a miniature baby.
Her main issue is really gaining enough weight and getting some fat on her body to maintain her glucose and temperature. She is still on hyperal, but they dc'd her lipids today. Her sugars have been pretty great lately, high 80s and 90s. With the decrease in fluids, she needs to eat more, which is a problem. She expends so much energy eating, so she gets tired. A tired baby doesn't make for a vigorously hungry baby. She is tired because she is small. It is a vicious cycle.
Unfortunately, we haven't even begun to talk about discharge. We just wait and see.
More good news, she had an eye exam yesterday (which was very traumatic) that showed no problems and no signs of a virus that could have caused IUGR.
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