3 pounds....YAY!

Danielle is now just over 3 pounds....yay! We are so excited that she is growing strong. She is being such a good girl and doing great.

Danielle is now being held at every feeding. When we can't be there for feedings the nurses hold her. This is very nice for us to know she is getting the one on one attention during her feeds and it is comforting also because she has still been in the bad habit of pulling out her feeding tube while feedings are going. This is very scary and dangerous so with her being held hopefully it limits the times or prevents it from happening...she is a stinker! The second picture of her being held is with her being held by the Developmental Therapist. She works with all preemies and develops developmental care plans every 2 weeks for babies in the NICU. In the picture she wanted to hold Danielle and feel her posture while being held, swaddled and then un-swaddled. She develops her care plan off of her observation. She was encouraged by Danielle's movements and posture. There are a few new things in her care plan we will work on, such as positioning, counting sucks when she has her pacifier in her mouth, bicycling her legs in and out to work on mid-range motion etc. We really like the care plan and we are very adamant about the nurses following this care plan also, it is our daily goal for them to follow and we post those goals in her room!

Also Danielle has been switched into a new isolet. She is now virtually keeping her own body temperature so they moved her into a smaller isolet. This isolet only heats up to 27 degrees Celcius, her body temp is 36.5 degrees celcius so she is keeping her temp difference up on her own!! This is exciting news! The next step is a crib, she needs to be at 1800 grams before she can be in a crib and she is about 500 grams away from that.

So no new other changes to report. We pray continuously that she keeps growing, going potty and breathing good......all at a nice easy pace.~