As you saw from my excited post earlier today Emma hit the 2 pound mark last night. She was 2 pounds 1 ounce when they weighed her. Today everyone that went to see her agreed that she did indeed look beefier. I'm not sure if it was our mental perception of her since we knew that she'd hit a big weight milestone or what, but she does continue to look bigger and bigger each and every day. Even seeing her every day we can still tell a difference in her. Her nurse Monika put up a picture of her by her bed that was taken a couple weeks ago and then put up another one that was taken today. You can definitely see a marked difference. She is without a doubt packing on some OZ's.
Eden got to visit her again today. While Mommy was holding Emma, Eden was sitting in daddy's lap. She reached out and touched Emma's tiny fingers again today and grinned so big and giggled! It was pretty cute! She gets so excited to see her. We have to bribe Eden to take a nap lately. We tell her that the only way she's going to go see Emma is if she takes a nap. We say that they won't let her in if she's super tired because she'll make too much noise and wake up the babies. It's not entirely effective, though. Eden will fight off a nap any chance she gets. We can already tell that these two are going to be just alike with how hard Emma is fighting and how far she's already come. I'm telling ya, the battles that lie ahead in this family are going to be legendary!
Oh, there was one small update: they increased Emma's milk intake again today. After telling us that 18ml would be the norm for a while, they increased her to 19ml. Not a big change, and it was due to the fact that she gained some weight overnight. When they're figuring out how much to feed her, it's based on her weight. They give her a certain amount of food per kilogram that she weighs. She's now up to .93 kilograms, by the way. That's another adjustment to make, they will convert her weight into pounds and ounces for us, but in the NICU, they weigh her in grams, they take her temperature in Celsius, and they feed her in milliliters. We are used to the weight being in pounds, temperature in Fahrenheit, and milk being in ounces or half ounces. So we've had to completely adjust our way of thinking having a baby there, even more than we thought we would. But after a couple weeks you get used to all of that stuff being in different units and it becomes second nature.
Today was another exciting day for Emma and everyone. The first big milestone was reached!! Way to go baby girl. We love you so much and are so proud of you!!
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