BATH TIME!

Big day today!! I talked to the Nurse Practitioner this morning, they round on the babies in the morning and the Neonatologist rounds in the afternoon. A little different than in the NICU. Ava is doing great. She gained quite a bit of weight today! She is up to 3 lbs 5 ounces!!!! There is a little discrepancy between the scales in the NICU versus Special Care so that could be some of the weight gain right there. Either way, we'll take it! Her face has filled out quite a bit and she isn't looking as skinny...to me at least. She got a new IV last night in her other hand. They usually only last a day or two because their veins are so little and fragile. This will be her LAST IV!!!!! She will be up to her full feedings soon and won't need the fats and lipids through the IV anymore. The NP thought we would have the IV out tomorrow. She has also done so well with her oxygen saturations that they are going to take her off that monitor tomorrow as well. The NP didn't want to make any changes today since she is new to the unit and wanted to have her for a day before making any changes. Makes sense to me! But, tomorrow, we will move forward. She will take a bilirubin test tomorrow to make sure her levels aren't too high, it probably went up since she is no longer on lights but they think she is big enough where she won't need lights anymore. So, slowly but surely we will be taking off different monitors and leads and she can be free of all the stuff!

She hasn't had a full bath yet, just the hair wash that Christy and I did the other day. So, today, we are going to give her a bath!!! Yay! I am sure she will love it. She liked getting her hair washed! We have to be careful with the IV but we can wash the rest of her! I know I haven't posted any new pics lately. I will do that tonight.