The past two weeks have been all about weight gain. Last Monday, (Jan 5) Abby weighed in at 6 lbs 11 oz - making her quite possibly the only person on the planet who actually lost weight over the holidays. Her cardiologist had us start mixing her formula to make it 30 calories/oz (mixing it according to the directions would make it 20 calories an ounce). She wasn't very hopeful that this would work and started to make plans to admit us to the hospital where we would learn how to tube feed Abby. She gave us until our appointment with her on Wednesday to try the higher calorie formula.
On Wednesday Abby weighed 6 lbs 12.5 oz - so we kept ourselves out of the hospital - and we were sent to check her weight the next day, Thursday, when she weighed in at 7 lbs 1 oz! We couldn't believe it! On Monday (Jan 12) she was 7 lbs 5 oz - and her cardiologist literally squealed with delight - and told us we could go back to just weighing her once a week.
4 comments:
Yeah! That is such good news!!! Don't we all wish that our problem was that we had to GAIN weight? haha :)
Abby is so blessed with parents that take such great care of her!!!
What a darling picture of such a beautiful child!!!
Love you!!
Praise God for the weight gain! We're thinking of you and will call you soon.
Rachel, Steve, and Ella
Way to go!! You guys are great parents. Love the hat... another great solution for the wild hair days :) Caroline is very jealous of Abby's long locks!
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