Dr. Appt was Friday

She now weighs 6 lbs 3.5 oz and is 19.5 inches long. She is going to be full term on June 5th, and she's getting close to a normal newborn weight. She's getting close to tripling her birth weight too. She rolled over from her back to her tummy all by herself yesterday!! She's been able to lift her head up and move it from side to side since she was a month old. The dr gave her the clear "again" to come off oxygen but she hasn't been on it for about 3 wks anyway. If she lays on her tummy, if you put your hand on her feet, like so she has something to push up against, she'll scoot across the floor. She almost can take 600 mls a days now. We're weining her onto "soothie" bottles too so that she can have a bigger amount of milk if she wants it.

3 Months Old on June 7th & Full-Term on June 5th

It's crazy to think that Elizabeth is almost 3 months old and I can't believe that we will have been out of NICU for a whole month on June 2nd. It seems like she just bearly came home yesterday. She's getting so big too. Everyone says oh look how small she is and I just can't see that, I guess thats because she started out so small and now compared to what she was shes huge!!!!!!

Elizabeth's Slideshow

Alright so I made this slide show about Elizabeth practically from day one until now. It's about 10 min long or so, so if you got the time watch it please...

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Another Milestone

Yesterday Elizabeth was cleared from her doc off of oxygen!! Today is her first full day without it. She came off of it, at about 11 am yesterday went back on for an hr for one feeding, and then went back on during the night. We aren't using the oximeter except for maybe at night. But she is doing great. I can't believe how well she is doing and has been doing, especially since she's not even full term yet (37 wks).

She's beginning to act more like a newborn now. She can lift her head, and turn it from side to side. She can almost turn over but she just can't figure out how to move her arm out from underneath her. When we lay her on her belly, she tries to get her knees under her, she's already wanting to crawl...Last week she weighed 5 lbs 12.5 oz, and she is 19 inches long. So pretty soon she'll be 3 lbs up from her birth weight and she is 4 inches up from her birth length. But I'm so happy she's off of o2, makes is easier to drag her around the house now. :)

Home Sweet Home

Elizabeth was discharged from University of Utah hospital on May 2 2006 at 5 pm. She stayed a total of 56 days or 8 weeks in the hospital. She was sent home on oxygen, 100%, but on 1/16th of a liter. She is on no meds. She is doing good on her feedings. She did good on the 3 hr ride home, slept most of the way. We have several companies that is monitoring her because she went 23 min without oxygen. So far no side effects from that. I am just so happy to be out of NICU, even though we do miss our primary RNs. But its nice to be home with our baby girl.