Well it has been a tough couple of weeks but we FINALLY got to hold our baby girl!! I held Olivia on 6/4/11 & Jer got to hold her for the first time on 6/6/11. We have been doing "Kangaroo Care."
Kangaroo care is a technique practiced on newborn, usually preterm, infants wherein the infant is held, skin-to-skin, with an adult. Kangaroo care for pre-term infants may be restricted to a few hours per day, but if they are medically stable that time may be extended. Some parents may keep their babies in-arms for many hours per day. Kangaroo care, named for the similarity to how certain marsupials carry their young, was initially developed to care for preterm infants in areas where incubators are either unavailable or unreliable.
Ever since our first time holding her we have been taking turns, she has been able to be held longer and longer each time. She must be able to keep her body temp up (we check it every 15 mins) and because the oxygen is different she must be ok without the humidity that she has in her isolate. Yesterday she did AWESOME!! I held her for almost an hour and a 1/2!! Yesterday was also the first time we got to change her diaper! Doesn't sound exciting but it was! haha It was a challenge because she was in her isolate and she is SO tiny we didn't want to hurt her, but she was fine! Also, baby girl is weighing 2 lbs now!! She is getting 8 cc's of my milk every 3 hours (somewhere between 2.5-3 ounces a day).
Olivia is just doing AMAZING!!! We can not even describe how much everyone's support has meant to us! It has been overwhelming! We don't even know how to thank everyone for all the prayers as well!! Every thought, message, card, they just mean so much to us and have really helped us get through this tough time! :)
First Family picture and my first time holding Olivia!!
Jeremy's first time holding Olivia
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