11 Weeks

This week was a very eventful week for our little girl. First and foremost, she got above the 4 lb. mark. Now that she has gotten that far, she's putting on weight like nobody’s business. I have a feeling that she won’t be 4 lbs. for long. The next big step she took this week is that she has been off of oxygen support since Sunday night/Monday morning at midnight. They thought that she might have to go back on occasionally, but that has not been the case so far for McKenna. Her doctor is also weaning her off and taking her completely off of some of the drugs that she is on like caffeine to help her breath, diuretics to keep fluid off of her lungs, and some other things. Last but not least, she has been moved to a new house. Monday evening, her nurse placed her into an open crib. Now to add to her list of things to do, she needs to keep and maintain her temperature. We were told that since she was in and open crib that she may not add on weight very fast since she will be burning calories to maintain her temp, but thankfully we haven’t seen that yet. Hopefully when she is an adult, she won’t get mad at us for begging for her to gain weight. So, needless to say, she has jumped over numerous hurdles this week. Basically at this point, she needs to learn how to eat and it’ll be HOME SWEET HOME!! New pictures will be coming soon. Have a wonderful week.