| That's such wonderful news! Sounds like she's doing just fine. Don't be
surprised if they keep her on oxygen for a while, but she'll graduate from the
hood to a nose cannula for the supplemental oxygen. That's the natural
progression, and pretty much all the babies follow that path, but some need
oxygen longer than others.
Keep us posted, and make sure they take lots of pictures of her especially
with the same toy so you can see how much bigger she's getting.
I'm so happy she's doing so well.
Cathy
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| Just another update--Tara is 2 months old today and doing super!
She is up to 4 lbs. 9.5 ozs., wearing only an oxygen tube in her nose
and taking three bottle feedings per day. The nurses expect her to
stay in NICU for another week or so and then move into the regular
nursery for a few days before going home. She truly is our miracle
baby and everyone is marveling over how well she has done. To go from
under 2 pounds to almost 5 in two months is remarkable.
Thanks for all the prayers and concern--I really believe that is what
has pulled Tara and her family through.
Regards,
Pam
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| Pam,
God bless Tara and her family. It's a long road to the 5 pound mark,
and it sounds like she is doing super!!! Hope you have lots of
pictures, she will grow up sooo fast.
I kept one of Shannon's premie diapers to remind me of how little she
was. It is amazing to look at it every so often and marvel at God's
work!!
Let us know when the big day comes when she is home!
beth
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| I came across this story when I was hanging around the NICU after my
second premie was born. I could really relate to many of the emotions
described in this story. After many weeks (13 and 5 respectively) in
the nicu with both kids, and then almost three years of follow-ups for
Shannon, my memories of childbirth and the precious days after are
dramatically different to other people's...This articulates my
experience and helped to get through the rough times (thesecond time
through)
Welcome To Holland (author unknown)
"I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a
disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique
experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like
this...
When you're going to have a baby, its like planning a fabulous vacation
trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guidebooks and make your wonderful
plans. The Colosseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in
Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very
exciting.
After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack
your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The
stewardess comes in and says, 'Welcome to Holland'
'HOLLAND?!?' you say, 'What do you mean, Holland? I signed up for
Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going
to Italy.'
'But there's been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in
Holland and there you must stay.
'The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible,
disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's
just a different place.
So you must go out and buy new guidebooks. And you must learn a whole
new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would
never have met.
It's just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy, less
flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and you
catch your breath, you look around, and you begin to notice that
Holland has windmills, Holland has tulips. Holland even has
Rembrandts.
But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy, and they're
all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the
rest of your life, you will say, 'Yes, that's where I was supposed to
go. That's what I had planned.'
And the pain of that will never, ever ever go away, because the loss of
that dream is a very sinificant loss.
But if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to
Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely
things about Holland."
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