I'm Two Months Old!

Kalista is now two months old.  Happy two months!!!

For her two month celebration, she received her first set of immunization shots (Hep B, DTap, Hib and Pneumococcal).  Poor gal!!  To make it less traumatizing, the nurses numbed the area ahead of time before giving her the shot. They also did the tag team approach and gave her the shots simultaneously in her chub chub thighs. Ouch!!  

You never know what kind of bugs are floating around in hospitals.  We usually have to pass by the children's emergency room in the evening to get to the NICU and we sometimes see kids come out "whooping" away from the whooping cough. According to her pediatrician, it's making a comeback and running rampant in California and we don't want to get it. Yikes!!

On a positive note...here are a few pictures of Kalista on her two month milestone:

        

She enjoys her lazy days in bed, which is everyday at the moment

She loves to suck on that pacifier

She has figured out where her fingers are and plays with them all the time...

even in her sleep

    

We are so proud of our little pumpkin and how far she has come in two months!!!  She is now about 9 lbs, 1 oz and about 21.5 inches in length.  She's growing and getting heavier by the minute.

Our swallow study is coming up and we hope that we get the thumbs up to eat by mouth; then we can get rid of the NG tube that is stuck to her face.  If Kalista gets a thumbs down, then we are looking at surgery time to implant a G-tube in her belly so that she can come home sooner.  The G-tube would allow us to feed her directly to her stomach. We won't go into much more detail about it because we hope she doesn't need the G-tube. All we can do is cross our fingers and pray that she'll pass her swallow study!!!