Moved to Transition Pod

November 29
Age: 10w4d
Gestational Age: 34w2d
Weight: 2lbs 13oz

Today they moved Ava to a transitional pod and lowered her oxygen settings to the lowest before either coming off or having to go home on it!!  She's doing great!!  Her new room is more private and has a window!  This is the first that she's seen natural light.  In this pod it seems that they really want you to focus on preparing for her to come home.  It's great but overwhelming at the same time.  Coming from a pod where they train you to take it day to day and even sometimes hour by hour, this is a huge adjustment.  So Will and I are taking some classes in the next few days to help us prepare...Child Seat/CPR (required) and Baby Care.  There are a few more classes that we want to take as well, Development and Infant Massage.  Keep praying that we can bring Babygirl home for Christmas!!!

Started Bottle Feeding & Introduced Breast

November 23
Age: 9w5d
Gestational Age: 33w3d
Weight: 2lbs 10.5 oz
Nurse Kate fed Ava from a bottle today!  Out of 20cc, she took 5! We will slowly feed her more from the bottle since she needs to feed from it at every feeding to be able to go home.

November 24
Age: 9w6d
Gestational Age: 33w4d
Weight: 2lbs 11.5 oz
Today Ava took 15 of 20cc from Nurse Hermine!  She would've taken it all but Hermine didn't want to put the multi-vitamin in the bottle b/c Ava would have been able to taste it.  Some of the nurses also overheard the doctor telling the residents that "this is what a 23-weeker should look like" because she was fiesty and kicking!  They also heard her say Ava "is the best 23-weeker she's had"!!! 

November 25
Age: 10w
Gestational Age: 33w5d
Weight: 2lbs 11oz
We started nuzzling today and when she found the breast she went for it!  Later we actually let her feed from the breast and she did pretty good!  She would go and then stop and then go again!  She did this 3 or 4 times!  Today she "nippled" 4 times which is the max she's allowed right now.