Our Three Pounder

Today was another good day :-) Our precious Jayden gained 3 ounces in the past 24 hours! So she is up to 3 lbs 4 ounces!! I can't believe how much she is changing every day! Even the nurses and physicians make comments about how much she is changing day to day and how she is the perfect preemie! I am one proud mama!!

Also, the nurses said she will also be out of her isolette very soon and in a crib! Again, AWESOME NEWS! That means she is able to maintain her body temperature and the temp in her isolette is room temperature!! :-) another step closer to coming home!! She is making progress on oral feeding, but they say this is the biggest hurdle for preemies because it takes the longest for them to learn. We have been doing non-nutritive feedings, where they feed her through her feeding tube but we practice bottle feeding, breast feeding or sucking on a pacifier. She's making progress everyday but can make it about 15 minutes before she passes out. And when our little one is tired, there is no waking her! And she HATES the feeding tube! She tries to take it out every single day! Almost like she's telling everyone she doesn't need it and she can eat on her own LOL.