Almost 4 Months Old

Elizabeth is now almost 4 months old, on July 7th, on the 5th she gets her 4 month shots. She is getting so huge, she has rolled over but she has only done it twice, and usually can't figure out how to do it. To me she acts like a 2 month old, she will follow you or objects with her eyes now. I think she's beginning to recognize people, like me and her dad. Preemie clothes don't fit her at all anymore. She's almost long enough for her nb sleepers. She is beginning to stay awake more during the day, and sleep more at night. The doctors make me mad though because they treat her differently than anyother baby or preemie for that matter...they are making us keep the oxygen at her bedside only because she has scarring on her lungs, she's been off of oxygen since May 16th and has been great off of it. They are making us have all these people come to our house to check her out only because of her "incident", I mean if there's something wrong with her because of the lack of oxygen then we won't know until she begins to sit up, crawl, walk or talk ya know..shes only 4 months old..and I don't want her to have therapy done if she doesn't need it. Personally if she needs some sort of therapy down the road then yes I'll have her do it, but not at almost 4 months old or a month old gestationally..its pointless right now in my opinion.

Elizabeth's Doctor Appointment

We took Elizabeth to the doctor today and she now weighs 8 lbs 0.5 oz and she is now 21 inches long.She doing good, we still have to keep oxygen here with us in case she needs it. She's still on her higher calorie formula. On her next doctor appointment she will have to get her 4 month immunization shots. And within the next few months she'll probably begin teething..yippee...>.<

Thoughts

Ok I understand why Elizabeth was born so early, 13 weeks early to be exact but...I'm still playing the "what if game" and I know I shouldn't but I just think what it would of been like for my baby girl to have been born in around her due date, getting to see her the second she was born and not 2 hours + after wards. Not ever to have stepped foot inside of NICU, not ever of seen her on the vent, or have seen her with a feeding tube. And I wonder if Elizabeth would of been full term would she of still gotten the piece of mucus stuck in her trachea and if she did what would of happened?? I blame myself for her coming early and I know that we did everything in our power to stop her from coming and no luck. But I still wonder if I would of taken care of myself when I was pregnant, would she still have come early? I feel sad that she's had to go through all the shit she has already in her short life. This little girl has been on the vent (respirator) twice, she has had 6 full blood transfusions in a 2 time period--and I was to blame for that one because Elizabeth's blood type is B- and I'm O-. And there is this thing called the "A-B-O Factor" Which means if the mom is O blood type and baby is either A or B, then mommy creates an antigen against baby and destroys her red blood cells. But I'm sure its worn off by now, it supposed to anyway. Anyway Elizabeth has had more IVs than any little baby should of, been poked and prodded so many times. She was born at 2 lbs 7 oz and the smallest she ever got was 2 lbs 3 oz, I'm so glad that she didn't hit the 1 lb range, that was one of my fears. And if we try and have another kid in 2+ yrs, will they be preemies too? And there's a chance that it could be multiples which scares me because they run on my side of my family. I mean cause the second we have another preemie, I'm getting my tubes tied so there would be no chance of having to see NICU again. I don't know I think about crap like this a lot, I know I should just let it go but...

New Update

Elizabeth went to see the doctor today and she weighs in at a whopping 7 lbs 3.5 oz and she is 20 inches long. So in a two week period, she gained one full pound!! ♥ She is now the size of a regular newborn!!!♥ And she has a cold so her doctor tested her for influenza and RSV and luckily both came back negative. So its simply just a cold. But we have to take her back to the doctor again tomorrow, just so he can check her out. But other than that, she's doing well!

Elizabeth & Cierra

♥ Elizabeth and Cierra ♥


You would never believe that these two are were born only 4 days apart! The only diff was that Cierra was only 2 weeks early and Elizabeth was 3 months early. Cierra weighs 14 lbs while Elizabeth weighs 6. It's amazing to see how staying inside for 3 more months how much difference it makes! We always say that it was because of Cierra that Elizabeth was born, Elizabeth got jealous of me holding Cierra, so she decided to come out so she could be held too I guess?

Dr. Appointment

Elizabeth had a dr app. today, Here weight is now::8 Lbs 12 oz and 21.5 Inches long♥The doctor said that she is teething, which already figured that, she has a bump on the top left side of her mouth and a bunch on the bottom left. So we're having to give her tylenol and orajel for the pain. And on top of that, she got her her 4 month immunizations, so her legs are sore and her mouth is sore. Finally they're not even checking her oxygen stats when she goes there. She is on floride drops too.

Elizabeth's New Pics