Proud Big Brother

First Full Bottle

Diana's nurse, Karen, was able to get Diana to take a whole bottle (46 ml) on her own tonight. Karen said she had to burp her often and it took her 25 minutes but she was able to take the whole bottle, which is HUGE progress. Now Diana will just need to do this consistently.

Brad and I went back to the hospital for Diana's 8 pm feeding and got to witness her sponge bath. She was none too thrilled and we had not heard her scream like that before, she definitely has some lungs on her.

Mommy Home

Today we got to bring Mommy home!!!! Baby sister has to stay in the NICU until she eats better which is very hard on all of us to leave her there. Mommy has to go to see her at least twice a day to feed her so we will be visiting Diana often. Mommy will probably be writing on my blog now for both Diana and me and from her perspective for awhile.

I (Holly) had a reaction to the percocet (pain med) tonight and have taken myslef off of it. Hopefully I can manage the pain with just the motrin.

Diana Marie Weeks

Thank you all so much for your thoughts and prayers, they all must have worked because we are all doing better than expected! Everyday gets better for me with my pain and aside from standing up and walking I am really not in much pain. I have a ton of staples in my stomach which are not fun but that is my only complaint, which is remarkable. I am no longer hooked up to anything and they think I should be able to go home tomorrow.

Diana is doing well and only has a feeding tube in. She is off all oxygen assistance, she is no longer under heat lamps and her IV has been taken out. She is doing GREAT feeding but she just tuckers out too quickly and they are holding her to pretty high standards of eating, 35 ml a feeding every 3 hours, so the feeding tube helps get the rest of her food in her belly. She has already nursed 3 times now and I am producing milk for her which I am very happy about. We don't know when she will be able to go home yet as she still needs more practice with the eating.

Big brother Jonathan is very proud of his sister and likes to kiss her on her head and "pet" her. He colored her a picture today which is now hanging on her wall near her crib.

Diana Marie Weeks was born at 1:18 pm on Wednesday May 11th. She weighed 5 lbs 13.5 ounces and was 19 inches long.

First Pictures of Diana

Jonathan Has Been Busy

While Mommy has been in the hospital, I have been very busy and spoiled by all of the people who have come to help us and stay with us.

Here I am pretending Nana's suitcase is a firetruck.
Here I am after I drew a picture of mommy, I just started drawing stick figures. You can't really tell but mommy has two "bumps" (i.e., circles) on her body. One is her belly with baby sister in it and the other circle is her "other bumps."

I like to pretend I am a nurse or doctor and check on mommy and baby almost every day I go to the hospital to visit them. The nurses/pca's even let me take mommy's actual vitals with their blood pressure cuff and thermometer. One day I even put baby sister on the non-stress test monitor all by myself...took out the monitoring pieces, plugged them in, turned the machine on, put gel on the one, put the monitors on mommy and found baby sister right away. The nurse came back in and was quiet impressed.

I LOVE BASEBALL! I don't like to use the tee anymore, I would rather have someone pitch to me. I am pretty good people keep telling me.

So Tired

Today I skipped my nap as I wanted to stay at the hospital with Mommy and see her friend Emily. Around 4:30 Daddy tried to have "quiet time" at the hospital while we watched the Red's but this was really hard for me. A little before 6 Daddy and I headed home and I fell asleep in the car probably within 5 minutes.