Time flies (when you're having fun??)...

Back in July we looked at August 21st as such a long time away. We were given a discounted parking pass to use by the hospital until the 21st of August when the parking garage closes for good and thought "hmmm wonder where we will be with progress by August 21st, what will things be like by then?". Today is that day and the parking garage is closed. The hospital is slowly starting to pack things up for their big move on September 12th. This means a lot of things, more chaos, organizing, less visitors, no new babies and hoping that the older babies will be well enough to go to a level II by the 12th of September; Anna being one of them.

Her progress, like I mentioned before, has sort of plateaued at the moment. It is frustrating to say the least. Her chart showed that she couldn't handle her entire 6 hours off of si-pap last night and was put back on it 30 minutes earlier due to a spell. I guess because we are so used to her just going forward, I get a little anxious when she takes a small step back. It is a small step back too, compared to other babies, she has no issues at all.

We can't expect too much because she is still so little. Her one neighbour who was recently moved to a level II was 37 weeks gestation when he was finally able to eliminate c-pap all together. Her new neighbour who was just born last week at 32 weeks is still on c-pap as well. Then there were a couple of twins born at 30 weeks who spent one week in the level III NICU before they were transferred out to the level II. So all babies are different. It's hard not to compare babies, I know they are all different, but when compared she is doing wonderfully. We just have to give her time to do things at her own pace.

In any case, she still loves her cuddles and her suckie and we have our little routine now when we go visit her. I think she knows when we are there for cuddles and diapey changes now!

Here's a video of her having some Kangaroo time with Daddy today:




Here she is being put back into her incubator and waving hi to everyone :)



Marta & Arthur