Kicking Butt, Taking Names

Eliza is having a great week! She is eating ...and doing well with it. By "eating" I mean she is getting milk through a tube down her throat and directly to her belly. Not too satisfying for her since there isn't any sucking involved but it gets the calories in and gets her insides working. Finally, all that breast pumping is coming to something! (Nothing is more annoying than being strapped to a pump every 3 hours and then dumping the milk cause baby isn't eating and there's no more storage space!) We bought a small chest freezer this week so we have more space for saving - though the freezer is taking residence in Eliza's room since we are short on house space as well. A freezer in the nursery - that makes sense right? We thought so. ;-)

Anyways, back to Eliza kicking butt.. she's gained 90 grams this week! That's around 3.5 ounces making her 1.5 pounds. She finally weighs more than she did when she was born! Glenn and I both got to kangaroo with her again this week. (We had been unable to for the past couple weeks due to Eliza losing more weight and getting sick because of her PDA.) She did really well with it - didn't drop her temperature and only forgot to breathe a couple times. Progress!

She is also starting to get a little more vocal. Most of the time its only when she is really upset about something - like when they removed her bandage from her heart surgery this week. It's such a tiny little sound, like a baby bird whimpering, but it gets a big reaction from us.

Eliza got her first actual taste of milk yesterday and it was the most amazing thing to see. Her nurse gave her a tiny drop before connecting the milk to her stomach tube and I wish I had the camera ready to get her reaction. Her whole body spazed, she rolled her eyes around and smacked her lips and stuck her tongue out like "what was that man, give me some more." It was the cutest thing she's done yet and me and her nurse were grinning ear to ear. It's the littlest things, so cute.