Michaela has had a great week!  She now weighs 3 pounds, 8 ounces (1613 grams), and is on the lowest possible high flow setting (1 liter of oxygen per hour).  This means that she should be graduating to an open crib any day now.  Since she’s big enough to begin regulating her own temperature, we’ve been tasked by the nurses to bring in her very first (tiny!) outfit. We couldn’t find a store that carried clothes quite small enough, so we’ll have to wait for her Amazon.com package to arrive to commence the fashion show.

In order to be eligible for discharge from the hospital, she’ll have to hit 35 weeks gestational age (just over two weeks away), she’ll need to be successfully regulating her own temperature, she’ll have to pass the Car Seat Challenge, and she’ll have to be able to eat on her own.  She’s not quite as interested in sucking as her brother is. Right now she still relies on a feeding tube to receive milk, but we’re hoping she starts to show more interest in sucking so she can start learning how to bottle/breast feed.

Recent pictures of the little girl…

Michaela always wants to see who she’s hanging out with

…trying to figure out her pacifier

Sleeping with mom