Well, you can see here Lee finally got to hold this little baby girl. He is smitten. Tessa made a lot of progress today. We were actually able to hold her, I sang to her, and she even did pretty good nursing (although to get her out of her she needs TONS of food to maintain blood sugar so they are also having her take a bottle and she has a feeding tube down her nose). They said we are waiting for benchmarks not time so we should plan on her being here a week ( they hope that is the high end). She has to be able to eat an ounce bottle on her own (without the tube), and be off the the glucose IV (which they are thinking we can be done with tmo). We are hoping that she comes around quick....we can't wait to have her home with us!
Monday, May 30, 2011
Nicu update...Tessa Grace
Well, you can see here Lee finally got to hold this little baby girl. He is smitten. Tessa made a lot of progress today. We were actually able to hold her, I sang to her, and she even did pretty good nursing (although to get her out of her she needs TONS of food to maintain blood sugar so they are also having her take a bottle and she has a feeding tube down her nose). They said we are waiting for benchmarks not time so we should plan on her being here a week ( they hope that is the high end). She has to be able to eat an ounce bottle on her own (without the tube), and be off the the glucose IV (which they are thinking we can be done with tmo). We are hoping that she comes around quick....we can't wait to have her home with us!
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Glad she's here and hope that the "week" is more than the high end of the scale.
She is so cute, and maybe with all the eating she has to do she can avoid the bili-lights....
I just love that little leg sticking out.
Congrats Kira and family. I hope your NICU time passes quickly. One of my babies was int he NICU for 6 weeks. It is so hard but amazing the treatment they give. Beautiful name!!
Such a sweetie! You are in my prayers.
Love seeing Daddy holding this treasure!
Just seeing this. Glad she is home now.
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