Mommy's First Big Girl Bath with Addison

Well Addison and mommy and daddy had a nice surprise this weekend and had a visit from the big guy himself, yep Santa made it into the NICU! He stopped to visit all the little ones that couldn't make it to the malls or the parades to see him. He was so wonderful and gentle with all the wee ones in the unit, he stopped at every isolet and cot and for those that were able to, he got pictures with them. Addison was so tickled and dressed up pretty in her posy dress for him. What a great moment to see our little one with the big guy in red, it started the Christmas spirit for us.

After all of the crappy weather again this past weekend, mommy and daddy made it to London yesterday and mommy got to give her first bath to Addison. Mommy was a little nervous as Addison is still so little and she is so afraid to hurt her or do something wrong, but all went well. Addison was a real trooper and hung in there while mommy figured out what to do. Addison did not even fuss one little bit, even when mommy turned her over and almost dunked her chin in the water. It gets easier the nurses say!!! Addison did great, mommy we are not to sure about, ha ha. The nurses again had Addison off of her oxygen and were sprinting with her, which means they only had low flow oxygen prongs in her nose. She did well for the bath and daddy only had to assist her once with oxygen. The doctors have tried sprinting with Addy a few times this past weekend and sometimes she is succesful and other times not so successful. In fact the doctors attempted to switch Addison to it completely yesterday, but this did not go so well. She lasted a few minutes and then went brachiacardic and stopped breathing so they had to put her back on her "rhinoceraus mask" system. Addison is just not ready for this and still needs the assistance of the extra high flow oxygen that her system gives her. In time it will happen no worries Addy, at your own pace little one.

After bath we got her all dried up and into her new little pink outfit from cousin Geoff , Jamie and the kids. She looked so darn cute that nurse Lisa sat her up and posed her for a pic. Dad laughed as he thinks she looks a lot like Winston Churchill!! Oh daddy.

Addison is still doing well with her feeds, even with her reflux. We haven't had to resort to medicine yet, knock on wood. The little porker is up to 3 lbs 7 oz. now and still gaining. As a result she is now up to 3 hour feeds, but still continuous for the reflux problem. What this means is that she now gets 10 cc of breastmilk every hour, so 30 cc over 3 hours, in laymens terms she is up to 6 tablespoons of breast milk over 3 hours. Not bad from where we started at 1 cc every 6 hours!!! Keep going sweetheart and you will be at that 2 kg mark in no time.