Update from the Nicu: Day 21

Current Weight: 3lbs 6.4 oz!!
Gestational Age: 35 Weeks
Actual Age: 3 weeks

I can't believe Abigail is already 3 weeks old - and that we've been in the Nicu for 3 weeks now! She's doing her thing and growing. The nurses all adore her because she's so darn cute and has a bit of an attitude. Don't know WHERE she gets that from! She gets quite fussy whenever anyone disturbs her sleep.  Poor thing - I say she deserves to be as fussy as she wants after being poked and prodded for weeks.  It wasn't her choice to come so early after all!!

Abigail's definitely starting to have more wakeful periods where she looks around and just takes everything in. Today she was awake and looking around for a good 45 minutes while I held her. She especially likes it when she hears Dr. Villez walk by speaking Spanish. She also will open her eyes and peek around when her daddy reads her bedtime story each night.

Today we tried to nurse, and although we didn't get much accomplished, it was nice to sit there and snuggle for a while. She is still taking her feedings by tube, but she takes them in 1 hour instead of 2. The next move is to slowly start adding bottles and breastfeeding sessions. We will probably start on those later this week/early next week.

In other news, Matt and I got our dryer fixed! I'm so excited to finally be able to do laundry again (it broke back in August right before I was hospitalized) but completely outraged by the price to fix it! The sad part is, we kn ew exactly what was wrong - we were just too technologically intimdated to fix it ourselves! Never again!!