I can see clearly now.........

Mikaila’s feedings continue to produce results. Kim bottle-fed Mikaila at her 11am, 2pm and 5pm feeds. Nurse Cliff (save the cracks) remarked that she sucked down her 2pm bottle in 3 minutes flat. That may have been a slight exaggeration but she did devour her bottle’s entire contents in each instance. Well done. Mikaila’s successes during feedings have continued to yield results. She gained another 35 grams today bringing her to the brink of the 3 lb mark. She currently stands at 1330 grams or a shade under 2 lbs 15 ounces. She is roughly 35 grams from 3 lbs. Oh, also related to her feeds, I failed to mention that her team bumped up her volume to 26 mls every three hours.

Mikaila’s isolette temperature was reduced to 27.5 C or 81.5 F. She really hasn’t had any issues with maintaining her temperature. Assuming she handles this reduction, and she will, they will move her to 27 C. The next step is room temperature so she really is close in this regard.

The last little nugget to report relates to Mikaila’s eyes. She had her first eye test today. Although the event was rather traumatic for our little peanut, she emerged relatively unscathed and passed her examination with flying colors. She didn’t even study. This was a routine test and will be re-administered in a month.

That’s all I have for today. Kim will be posting a picture or two momentarily.

Here are the pics and I have been instructed to introduce them with some detail. As a rule, I try to avoid accommodating specific requests. I mentioned in an earlier post that entertaining these requests can be dangerous; my lawyer friends know well the slippery slope argument. However, we had a suggestion that I thought was worthy enough to consider breaking my rule; to capture Mikaila in a picture with my wedding band. If you will recall, I took a picture of Mikaila with my wedding band on her wrist when she was only a few hours old. Well, fortunately, that same band would have no chance of fitting on her wrist at this point. So, we decided to post a picture of Mikaila with my wedding band next to her arm.