Height: 21 3/4"
Weight: 9lbs 14oz
Clothes: NB & 0-3 months - She has definitely outgrown most of her newborn clothes this month & I packed up all but 4 outfits Tuesday :(
Diapers: NB - was starting to look a little too small, so we moved her up to a size 1... which looked entirely too big! So for the time being we are sticking with NB until size 1 fits a little better :) As of today (2/26) she's only in size 1! Ayla still doesn't like diaper changes, but she doesn't like to be dirty either!
Sleep: she naps during the day & is still sleeping in her bassinet in our room at night... she wakes up every 3-4 hours for feedings
Diet: breast milk
Toys: She still loves her play mats, bouncer, & swing - especially the mobile on it!... I try to give her soft rattles to play with but she isn't very interested quite yet.
Milestones/firsts: not really a "milestone" for her - but it was for me - we survived our first grocery shopping trip with just the two of us this month! Yay us! {...& then she got RSV so we won't be returning to the grocery store together for quite some time!}
Health: Ayla got RSV this month :( I started to notice a very slight cough on 2/13 - so slight that I didn't think much of it. Then it continued & seemed to slowly get worse. I took her to the doctor on 2/15 (not her usual pediatrician) and was told it was just a cold. He said her lungs were clear and she didn't have a fever, so she wasn't tested for RSV or the flu. We were sent home and told to use the humidifier and take her into the bathroom with hot water running. I did exactly what we were told and checked her temp regularly. She never did get a fever, but continued to only get worse. I called the doctor Monday (the day after we first took her in) and told them she seemed to be worse & she was unknowingly exposed to pneumonia, but didn't have a fever. I was told "well her lungs were clear yesterday so nothing would have settled that quickly" and to keep doing what I was doing & call back if she had a fever. Tuesday she still seemed like she was getting worse and I could hear crackles and wheezing - without my stethoscope - so I called again. Finally she told me to go ahead and come back in. Almost immediately when the doctor saw her she told me it sounded like RSV, but they would test her to make sure. While we were waiting she explained that unfortunately there is no treatment and we just have to let it run its course if that's what it was. Sure enough the test came back positive. Before we were sent home she wanted to see what her oxygen saturation was & it was 76%! My heart immediately sank and when she started talking I told her I knew what she was going to say... She said "because she's a preemie & with her history I think it's best that she be admitted to the hospital..." I just started crying for a minute and stopped listening. Once I stopped she said the hope was that she would get over there, they would get a better reading, and she would go home the next day. I knew in the back of my mind that's not how this was going to play out - Ayla has yet to do anything how we all plan or think she will! When we got to our room they started hooking her up & her sats were good... For about a minute... then went back down to the 70s, so oxygen was applied to keep her sats >90%. She didn't need much at all - only 1/4L - but that little bit helped her so much! She got 2 neb treatments that day, but it made her pulse go higher than I was comfortable with & didn't seem to be very beneficial, so I requested that they be stopped & they were. Wednesday was definitely her worst day and the scariest for me. I tend to be relatively calm initially, and then start to think about all the possible complications that could arise, which makes my anxiety go through the roof! Plus, when she got worse and couldn't seem to get off of the oxygen it took me right back to her NICU days when she had what seemed like such a hard time getting off of the oxygen. When she was finally taken off of the oxygen in the NICU they just took it away, ran tests, then took her off of the pulse ox - which was a huge emotional hurdle for me to get over & caused SO much stress & fear for me! Then, like usual, after I had my mini-meltdown Ayla seemed to turn the corner and started to slowly improve. When she finally passed without her oxygen she would still dip down, but would come right back up and I was able to see it this time... thank God! She stayed 5 nights but is home and back to her happy self!Misc: Ayla's personality is definitely starting to show more and more... and boy does she have a BIG one! When she gets mad she grunts - and I LOVE it! She's gotten so talkative this month and smiles back when you smile at her! She's a little on the impatient side (like her momma) and if I take too long to satisfy her need she gets a little loud and it seems like she's "fussing" at me! She loves to smack her lips - which is a HUGE pet peeve of mine so definitely something we will work on when she's a little older ;) She is still loving her paci and loves car rides... she lets us know when we stop that she isn't very happy about stopping! I just love her so much and she makes me happier than I ever thought I could be!
