We're not alone

Kim administered two consecutive bottles to Mikaila today, the first at 2 and the second at 5. She handled the 2pm feed without issue and managed roughly 24 of the 28 mls in the second bottle. Did I say 28mls? I did. During rounds, her team bumped her up to 28mls every 3 hours. Essentially, Mikaila gets 20 mls per feed for every kg of body weight.

An old friend from High School came across my Facebook profile and noticed a picture of Mikaila that I had posted. Seeing the nasal canula in her nostrils, Kevin inquired as to Mikaila's status at birth. When I confirmed to him that Mikaila was in fact a premie he responded with some interesting information. Kevin has two boys, both of whom were premature at birth. One in fact was 26 weeks and 2 lbs at birth. Although Mikaila was quite a bit smaller, she was actually almost two weeks older gestationally. The nugget that this readership may find interesting is that Kevin is authoring a book giving a fathers perspective on the experience of having a premature baby. Some folks on this blog have suggested I seek publication; that a sequential diary of this sort may be of some value to others especially considering the author is the father. Well, Kevin, having gone through the process more than once, is eminently qualified to take on the project. I will be sure to post the information as soon as his book is commercially available. I look forward to reading it.

That's it for now. They will weigh her at 11 so I will follow up with an update soon thereafter.


They ended up weighing her at 2am. I am far too old to be up at that hour so I called this morning. Mikaila gained another 40 grams bringing her to 1405 grams or 3 lbs 1 1/2 ounces.