Kangaroo Care

Emma Claire sleeping soundly
Emma Claire stretching while laying in Daddy's lap
Daddy holding Emma Claire

Mommy and Emma Claire

Mommy and Emma Claire during Kangaroo Care

Since Emma Claire is now down to 4 liters of flow on her Vapotherm we are able to do skin to skin care called Kangaroo Care. It was great to be able to sit and hold her for more than just a few minutes each week. We can do this each day with her and it was so much fun! Matt did not do the skin to skin contact, so he just held her in front of him. We cannot believe how big she is getting. Emma Claire now weighs 2 lbs 14 3/4 ounces (1329 grams) and 15 inches long! PRAISE GOD!

She is such a big girl and growing each and every day.

Emma Claire is now getting 23 cc every 3 hours of breast milk fortified to 29 calories. Today they discontinued her Lasix, Sodium and Potassium which is awesome. They had her on the those meds since her PDA was still open, but they have not heard the PDA/murmur in over a week....we serve an AWESOME GOD!!!

We continue to give GOD the glory for everything he has done for us and her. She continues to grow and stay healthy and we continue to pray for her weight gain. We just keep marking off her milestones and our next one will be when she hits 1500 grams, we can start giving her baths in her bed. When she hits 1800 grams, she gets to move up to a open air bed and we will be able to put clothes on her and hold her more. I just PRAISE GOD today for getting to hold her every day now. I can remember back to when I would sit at her bedside and pray for the day I would be able to hold and talk to her. Today was an answered prayer.

Psalm 29:11 ~ The LORD gives strength to his people; the LORD blesses his people with peace