Ivanna is off the acute care! And off oxygen

Yesterday Ivanna's main doctor came to tell me that she is ready to be completely off the oxygen and she is officially off the acute care and on to the Boost team.

This means there will be no more daily doctor rounds since she doesn't need it and the Boost team is a team of a few doctors who will work closely with me to help me reach full feeds through breastfeeding and bottlefeeding and prepare me for going home, teach me everything I need to know.

It's been more than 24 hours for Ivanna without the oxygen and she did amazing!

Also on Sunday she got her first full bath! She loved it, didn't even cry.

She is turning 35 weeks gestation tomorrow and today she is 10 weeks old. She was born 16 weeks early and doctor said that we have about 6 more weeks in NICU, this means they think we can go home on time for my due date and this would be so amazing. The two major milestones that we have left is get rid of the G-tube and pass the car seat test!

When her main doctor was announcing during the rounds about the end of acute care, her words stuck in my head "on to boost steam at 34 weeks, 390 g baby, who knew..." And both of her primary nurses keep repeating that she is very special, they never see even bigger babies than her doing so well...

Her breast training is going really well, she is eager to take the breast and this is really good! She is slowly taking more and more drops of milk. Next week they will allow me to breastfeed on a half empty breast instead of an empty breast like right now and they will start measuring how many mls she actually took in (by weighing her).

Taking full feeds will take some time, because she is so tiny and breastfeeding takes a lot of energy which she has to preserve for growing, so we have to take it slow since she also has to gain up to 1800-2000 in order for us to be able to go home. And usually this NICU tries to get babies to fully breastfeed not earlier than 37 weeks, and they say that for her weight she is way ahead of herself with how well she does.

I can't get enough of her cuteness, I just stare at her all day as she is cuddling in my hands..