Actually, I’m a little late on this, but K doubled her birth weight recently! She’s actually 5lbs, 8oz (2494 g) as compared to her birth weight of 2lbs, 8oz (1140 g)! She’s also now 18 7/8″ long as compared to 14″ at birth.

The doctors have made a few changes to her care recently. She’s still on the low flow oxygen, doing very well, so well that they took her down from 1/4 liter of air to 1/8 yesterday. It just means there’s only 1/8 liters of air flowing through a minute as compared to the 1/4 it was before. No, I didn’t know they could measure air in liters before all this, either! The doctor said he’d like to try her on room air (with no added oxygen) soon and see how she does. I’m not sure when he is going to do that but I’m sure it’s going to have to be at least a few days yet. He said some babies need to go to that other step of 1/16 of a liter before they get to room air. She’s doing well on the 1/8 liters so far. She desats some again when she gets upset but in time that will fix itself, too.

They’ve changed her feedings from every 2 hours to every 3 and her intake is up to an ounce and a half every time (45 milliliters). We’re working on teaching her the bottle – she knows how to do it but she’s been known to take too much in and then choke on it. They did a swallow study on her today where they had her take dye and they watched with x-ray (I think?) how she handles it. They said she did really good with that. So I think she just needs practice.

Actually, I think that’s it except for we took in a mobile for her and she loves to look at it!!

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