Aeva survived another week home!
She's growing nicely, though we have no official weight to post this week. Her next doctor's appointment is June 5, the day she is officially 4 months old. That day she will get her 4 month well-baby appointment, her 4 month shots, and a physical to check on her progress of catchup growth and maturity.
She has been steadily eating 2.5 ounces, and has had a GREAT week keeping it down! She had a bad day last Sunday, and puked at every feeding. Since then, she has only had minimal puking each day since. She does have milk up in her sinuses from her reflux that I can't suck out with the bulb syringe, but allegedly, it's okay. Today, Saturday, at her 3 pm feeding, she ate 3 whole ounces!!
It truly is amazing! In the hospital, her medical team kept saying that with preemies, it "just happens," and one day, everything clicks and they figure it all out. Holy moley, they really were right. There was one day, a Sunday to be particular, that she just started eating the 2 ounces every 3 hours that she needed to. From there, she was sent home at the end of the week!!
At not even 3 weeks home yet, she's already up one whole ounce!!
She's a very good baby, and doesn't cry often. She only really cries when she throws up, but who doesn't? When she wakes up in the middle of the night, she only wimpers and grunts and makes cute little baby noises.
She's been pooping regularly, and having good urine output. I can't believe women push babies out this big! She is so ginormous to us, and yet is still so little in the grand scheme of things.
Oh, this past Thursday, the 21st, she came out of her hip brace for her hip dysplasia. She only wears the brace at night, and man o man does she hate that! She goes to see her orthopaedic surgeon on the 29th for another ultrasound to verify the position of the femoral head in the acetablulum. (The head of the thigh bone into the hip socket).
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