Bath/Bottle/Eye Exam

Yesterday they showed us how to give Aimee a bath. She was surprisingly a lot more calm than we thought she was going to be. She cried a bit, but when the nurse put her in the water and was splashing water over her, she calmed down. She didn't seem to like it when the nurse washed her hair. Her next bath, we should get to do. 

She did good with the bottle yesterday. She got 19 mL out of it before she decided that was enough and went to sleep. The other 16 mL had to be fed through the tube. She knows how to drink out of the bottle, but she hasn't quite learned how to breathe properly while eating. She stops eating and will breathe fast for a few seconds and then go back to eating. The nurse said that's normal. She hasn't quite got suck/swallow/breathe yet. The nurse yesterday said that babies sometimes don't fully get that until 37 weeks. Aimee is just about 35 weeks. That is the number of weeks pregnant I would have been had I still been pregnant. 

Aimee went for her first eye exam this morning. Mike called a little while ago and they said she is back and everything looked ok. I am sure I will get more information when I go visit her in a couple of hours. I will update later today or tomorrow with that information. They are doing a follow-up eye appointment next Tuesday. 

As of yesterday, Aimee was 3 pounds 11.5 ounces. 8.5 more ounces until she has doubled her birth weight. She's getting a chubby little belly. She is also getting very long. I was going to buy some sleepers and onesies off someone that are 3-5 pounds, but because she is growing so fast I decided not to. Her feet are pretty much right at the end of these sleepers so if she keeps getting so long and growing so fast she will be into the 5 pound sleepers pretty soon. It's much easier to find those in stores than 3-5 pound. 

Aimee is 5 weeks old today. 

Her first matching outfit

After her bath

Holding her after her bath and feed