This morning when Blair and I arrived in Harli's module the nurses could not wait to tell us what Harli had done first thing this morning. When the nurses were in the front of the module getting reports from the night nurses they kept hearing a noise but could not figure it out at first. Come to find out it was Harli crying in her incubator, and they could hear her clear in the front of the module, which is pretty amazing since she is all the way in the back. The nurses told us that as soon as a nurse would walk over there and lift up her blanket to look in she would shut her eyes real quick and stop crying. Then the moment they would put her blanket back down she would start crying again. They said this went on for about a hour and a half.
Today there were not many changes with Harli. She had about three episodes total for the day and two bowel movements. They did not raise her feedings since she is having a little bit of a reflux problem. Harli did loose a little bit of weight, she weighed in at 2.11 lbs. Since today is Sunday they measured her and she was 14.5" long, which means she grew .5" since last Sunday. We can not get over the difference in her size, especially when you compare pictures from today to a month ago. Even though she looks bigger she still looks so small compared to the full term baby in the bed beside her.
They are talking about raising her feedings again tomorrow and then on Tuesday they will check her vision. They say that even on full term babies the eye is not fully developed so they will start checking Harli's eyes to see where they are at. I am praying that we get good results, but it is something they will have to continue to check for weeks to come.
Taking Harli's temperature.
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