August 15th, 2007



Two special birthdays to celebrate today...Megan is 6 weeks old and her Aunt Karen is 22 years old!! Happy Birthday!


Megan hit another milestone today and is now in the 3 lb club! She was 3 lbs 1.7 oz last night! Of course, that was before she had two large poops (on her own - no suppository!)


She is also starting to wear clothes. They had a cute shirt on her today. I did my first load of baby clothes and washed a few outfits for Megan and also the preemie outfits from Grandma Klinger. I'm going to take those in for Meggers. Right now she has to wear clothes that button in the front to make it easy to take off and put on.


We had a great day today. I changed another diaper on my own with Dad taking her temperature. They are currently weaning her off the nasal cannula so she can just breath on her own. Then she will start bottle feeding and nursing. They will also gradually decrease the temperature in her bed so she can learn to keep herself warm. Right now her bed is at 31 degrees and it will need to get to 26 degrees before she can try the "open crib" test. She has to be able to maintain her body temperature in a regular nursery crib for 24 hours before going home.


In case you are wondering, her face is wrinkly in the picture because they us special tape to keep the nasal cannula and feeding tube in place. They take it off very gently and it doesn't hurt her at all - nothing like if we would put clear mailing tape on our face!