Our tiny Curly Q is now 4 months old! She looks and acts closer to a 2 month old, but that's okay. She is huge to us. Especially since she is 3 times her birth weight. She is such an easy and happy baby. Her favorite hobbies are eating and sleeping. She is constantly hungry. Lots of days, I am nursing her every two hours. But that is okay because she is in the less than 5% for weight, so she can eat as often as she wants. She is a champ sleeper too. Most of the time, I just lay her in bed, and she falls asleep on her own. She's always had her days and nights straight (thank you NICU nurses!). She usually goes 5-6 hours at night. This week, she decided to sleep through the night and go 8 hours and sleep from 10 pm to 6 am. It was wonderful!
She gives the cutest, biggest smiles. I have a hard time capturing them in pictures, but she's adorable. She loves smiling for her sister more than anyone. Little Miss loves Curly Q and Curly Q loves Little Miss. It's really cute. And Little Miss is such a huge help. I put Curly Q on the floor and she just watches Little Miss play. Little Miss loves to read books to Curly Q. They entertain each other, it is fabulous! We used to have Curly Q camped out in our living room, but this week we moved her into the same room as Little Miss and the transition seems to be going great. Little Miss LOVES having a room mate. And she sleeps through Curly Q crying.
Curly Q has discovered her hands. She loves sucking on them. It's really cute, however she knocks her oxygen nasal cannula out of her nose even more than she used to (if that's possible). I constantly hear cute sucking noises coming from her and I look over to see her hands in her mouth and her cannula up by her forehead. Hopefully we only have a couple more weeks of oxygen. She'll get it tested sometime in the first half of June.
We're not sure what Curly Q's stats are recently. Her 4 month appointment is a little delayed because her immunization schedule got off while she was in the NICU. I know on our home scale, last week, she weighed 10.8 pounds. She's growing at a good healthy rate.
Officially, we are still keeping her away from the crowds. RSV season is officially over, but while she is on oxygen, we are supposed to keep her away from crowds. However, we have been able to introduce her to her grandpas and grandmas.
