Funny NICU moment and bragging

adrielegorburu · May 2011

Little Miss Madison is doing great (besides the MRSA infection in her eyes) shes rocking her cannula and is down to 2 liters and only needs about 25% O2. As of three days ago shes wearing clothes!! she looks so uber cute in her huge preemie outfits. And the nurses love dressing her up. Because shes doing so well I got to hold her yesterday - funny thing is I've only kangaroo'd with her three times. All of the sudden yesterdays nurse (first day we had ever met) says "ready to hold her" and I got so excited I jumped into the rocker and immediately unbuttoned my shirt and whipped out the mamma jammers - and she handed her to me to cradle hold!! She must have thought I was some kind of exhibitionist or something! I had never held her that way before so I just assumed she meant kangaroo!! lol

Oh and big day today, not only did we get to snuggle some more, and daddy got to also, our big girl hit 3 pounds 7 oz today AND took 10 mls from a bottle for the first time!! sorry for the bragging but I'm super excited. When she was born at 22 weeks I was told she had 10% survival chance - now look at her show those docs whats what!! Thats my girl

Temp356619000002780 · May 2011

You keep bragging mama... That is exciting. I was told my smaller twin would not last the pregnancy and now he is home. They where born at 31 weeks and both came home already. Little steps go a long way! Keep growing little lady!!

Natalie_may · May 2011

Brag away! That is so exciting, she sounds like she's doing so well!

kck329 · May 2011

Congrats on all the milestones! I'm excited for you--its so great when your LO can wear clothes and cuddle with you. Keep up the kangaroo time too.

My DD has MRSA in her eye too. They did a second culture for it when we were discharged and found out she is "colonized' with it which means we probably are too. Our pedi gave us an antibiotic that we swab in everyone's noses daily. So much fun but hopefully it will get rid of the MRSA. Does she also have a blocked tear duct? That is what our pedi eye doc said made it easy for the MRSA to grow. However, they say both will resolve themselves with time.