Day 81

Curly Q is eating her way out of the NICU. She is a champ at nursing and she is constantly amazing her docs and nurses with how well she is doing. Wednesday night, she did awesome again. Her test weight revealed 54, even better than the morning. Then yesterday, we got bumped up to nursing 3 times a day. In the morning, she got 48, a little less than before but still awesome. Her afternoon feeding, she got 61! Then in the evening, she got 61 again. This was pretty much her full feeding. I'm so excited! This morning, when I got to the hospital, the nurse was holding Curly Q - she was trying to keep her happy. Apparently Curly Q was starving and was getting frustrated with her pacifier. She just wanted to nurse. Yay! She had no problems latching and ate 68! She's getting the hang of it. It's been cute to watch her experience eating for the first time. The past couple days, she has been wide awake and gets most of her milk in less than 10 minutes. And she stays wide awake after - like it is new and exciting. The last couple times, she paces herself a little better and gets drowsy afterwards. She's so stinking cute and we are so excited to have her home.