We're Moving On Up

Kalista's OLD bed

 Kalista's NEW bed

She graduated from her isolette incubating bed to a crib style bed (as seen above). Awesome!!! This all means that we are heading closer towards "Operation Homecoming".

Kalista has also shown that she is a "big" girl now and moved into the NICU's Pod C.  This is where the stable babies go to grow and recover.  We were in Pod A originally, which is the main NICU area.  Bye Bye Pod A!!!

Pod C is equivalent to a penthouse in baby world.  She has gone from a busy, noisy baby city with 29 or so neighbors to serene, spacious baby suburb with about 7 neighbors.  Big difference!!  She also has a window to gaze out of from time to time.  Not the best view of anything, but it is an upgrade.

 

Her hearing test from last night came back and she PASSED. It amazes me how they can test a person so small and get accurate results or at least confident ones. 

Oh...the simple things in life that makes us so very happy!!

From this look on Kalista's face...we're not sure if she was happy with the move.

Oh wait...she looks much more happy with the move since her toys and pacifier came with her.

We settled in well to our new home and we even got in some good bonding and snuggle time.

Mom got to hold and snuggle with her.

Dad got to hold and snuggle with her.

We all got to snuggle with her.

(Too bad she wasn't looking at the camera)

Mr. Bumpy is what we will call her "O".  He is healing up nicely under all that gauze they wrap so nicely around him.  We had to do a little reduction surgery on the blue foam ring that goes around Mr. Bumpy today, since it was gigantic.  Imagine a huge foam ring that surrounded your belly button and the farthest edge of the ring went up to your collarbone. Every time we changed Kalista's diaper, her legs would hit the bottom of the blue foam and the top part of the foam would sock her in the face.  She looked so stunned every time it hit her.  Poor baby!!!

This is the new and improved blue foam ring.