Nora

Our little Nora is such a big girl--she is nearly exclusively breastfeeding now and growing like a weed.  She is a very happy little girl when she is awake, but she prefers to sleep...a lot.  probably because she is growing so so so much.  After being home for 7 weeks, she'd doubled her discharge weight and was up to 10 pounds.  At discharge, she was in the 5th percentile for her adjusted age (4 pounds 14 ounces at 36weeks6days)--at her four month appointment she was 9 pounds 11 ounces, the 50th (F-I-F-T-Y!!) percentile for her adjusted age of 4-5 weeks old.

She is all smiles and seems to giggle occasionally.  Now, it's about 6 weeks after their due date and she is doing all the things a normal 6 week old would do.  She had an evaluation from "Early On" to assess her development due to the low birth weight and she scored normal for a 1.5-4 month old in every category.  Her eyes are now healing OK--she lost a bit of her peripheral vision due to the laser surgery in her right eye, but otherwise, her left eye is resolving and she won't necessarily need glasses.  When we went to our last pediatrician appointment--her 4 month well child visit--, she said Nora doesn't need to come back until her 6 month well child visit, so she is no longer being monitored for her weight gain and is on a normal baby pediatrician schedule.