Last night, Emerie graduated from the Neonatal Intensive Care Nursery (NICN) to the Neonatal Progressive Care Nursery (NPCN). The NPCN is basically the NICU for less sick babies. It's great! The rooms are a little bigger, there is more privacy and it has a much more relaxed atmosphere. Emerie's doctor, nurse practitioner and nurse in the NPCN today all took care of Oliver 2 1/2 years ago when he was there.
In other good news, Emerie gained weight yesterday. She has been taking her bottles so well that they're going to go ahead and increase her feeds to 21 mls today and 23 mls tonight so they can go head and start fortifying the milk. Her bilirubin did go back up again, so as Andy says, she gets another "day at the beach." They will check another bilirubin again in the morning and hopefully she will only need to be under the bili lights for one or two days.
Our new digs. Take note of the window! :)
One advantage of being a NICU baby...if you're on constant cardiac and respiratory monitors you're allowed to sleep on your stomach.
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