BabyBug is 5 lbs 11.5 oz! She is taking ages to get to 6 lbs, but I remember we felt the same way about 5 lbs and she got there eventually!

Just a few small updates. Leah has been on liquid antibiotics for a few days now for the inflammation around her Mic-Key button, but the surgeons are not happy with the rate of recovery so they are giving her IV antibiotics now. This means she has a boxing glove again. Leah has also been pulling out her tube pretty frequently – I think it’s three or four times in five days at this point. Her doctor suggested we put her in mittens. This will also help with another new problem: She scratched herself! This is the second scratch in two days. I think that when she is upset she has a tendency to wring her cheeks to express the depth of the torment to which she is being subjected, and now that her nails are growing, she’s drawing blood in the process. So we will start putting her little paws into mittens. The last update is that she is making that scary rattling sound more frequently and needing to be suctioned more often. She did it again today, even with the tube in, and it took removing her tube and cleaning it out fully in order to make the sound stop. Poor kid. It can’t be fun to have that thing coming in and out of her throat so frequently.

In other news, 4/5 of the babies in Leah’s NICU pod (including Leah) have very similar names. It’s pretty funny.

Picture time!

“Awwww Ma, that was a terrible joke!”

“Ladies and gents, I introduce to you… Mommy!”

“Whuh? Where did my hands go? OMG WHERE DID MY HANDS GO?????”

This is what happens when we don’t hide her hands.

BabyBug never looks too happy when her tube is out (mostly because it usually only comes out when there’s a problem), but apparently being petted helps.