Our baby girl is 7 weeks old today, hard to believe that she is growing so quickly. Normally this is the time where we would finally be getting in a daily schedule as we would soon be returning to work after enjoying weeks at home with out baby girl. Unfortunately that has not been the case for us. Let me start from the beginning to explain the past 7 weeks.
Bringing out baby girl home from the hospital was the best day. We knew that it was going to be challenging bringing a preemie home. Since she has lost almost 10% of her birth weight we were on strict feeding schedule. Every two hours day and night she needed to be fed. In the beginning Nora was struggling with eating due to her tongue tie and not able to figure out sucking. The first week home it would take us about an hour to get her to take 15-20ml. This took a lot of effort to to keep up with. Nora also was Jaundiced so we have to have Home Health care come out to the house to pout her on a photo therapy Bili blanket. Along with this came daily trips to the doctors office to check her bilirubin levels and get a weight check. She slowly started to gain weight and her bilirubin levels came down so we could get her off the blanket.
Since her tongue was causing concerns with her feedings we ended up having that clipped. It was a quick and easy procedure and made a HUGE difference. After we got her tongue clipped she started eating really well and was finally latching on to breastfeed as well. By this point we were at the doctors office almost every day for the first 2 weeks, which meant time for our 2 week checkup.
At our 2 week check up everything seemed to be doing okay. She was back up to her birth weight and eating like a champ. Our Pediatrician said that she heard a heart murmur (didn't seem to of concern) and her head circumference was on the larger side so she want us to come back at 1 month of age rather that 2 month which would normally be the next appointment.
Finally a full 2 weeks with no doctor appointments!!!
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