On the up....

Well, Emma has taken off. She is doing very well. She has not been puking at all. Her appetite has increased tons and she is more alert and you can just tell she is feeling better. Her in-home nurse stopped by real quick today to drop off a swing and I told her what had happened. She decided she wanted to weigh her. I was a little nervous to see. She had weighed her two weeks ago and she was 7 lb. 6 oz. on her scale. Today she was 7 lb 11.6 oz. That is HUGE!!!! That means that she has gained 5 oz. in two weeks. It's also big because her scale always weighs Emma the smallest between the 3 scales she uses. There is the NICU scale (where she always weighs the most - this is part because they leave all the belts and wires on). Then you have the pediatrician scale - this is the middle scale. Then the nurse's scale (weighing at our house) is always the least. For example, I would have an appointment at the peds. and she would weigh 7 lb. 3 oz. and the next day we would weigh her at home on the nurse's scale and she would be 7 lb. 1 oz. So the fact that in the NICU on Tuesday she weighed 7 lb. 8 oz. (with her belt and wires on) and then 7 lb. 11.6 oz. with everything off. Huge!!! As you can tell I'm a little excited!! I just really see a difference in her. I'm journaling everything - how much she eats, pukes, the times, everything. So now we just have to keep an eye on her oxygen and make sure that she doesn't need to go on diurel, which she might. We'll see...
Well, I'm off to bed. Later!!!