And she just keeps growing

Yesterday and this afternoon they told us Emmy was 3 lbs 5 oz, but tonight her nurse said she was 3 lbs 8.5 oz! I'm not sure if the nurse earlier today told us yesterday's weight, or if she was weighed again tonight...to be honest, we were so shocked we didn't think to ask! Either way, we are thrilled and anxious to hear what Dr. Bartley will say tomorrow. (He is the neonatologist who first had her the day she was born and that first weekend and he is taking care of Emmy this week while Dr. Brawley is off.) Hopefully she can move to a bassinet soon. They have already lowered the temperature inside her isolette, so she's being weaned off her "heat source."

Last night Charles changed her diaper for the first time, and lucky him, it was a poopy diaper! He did great. I've gotten to breastfeed her twice, once yesterday and once today. It's gone about as well as I could have expected. Tomorrow we'll have the lactation consultant come in to give me some advice, too. We'll still have to give her bottles when she comes home because she'll need a vitamin supplement at least once a day and most likely she won't quite have the energy to nurse at every feeding for a little while longer.

He's a photo of Emmy from last night. You'll see she is in a "new" isolette that's actually much older and doesn't have all the bells and whistles that the "Cadillac bed" she was in had. Because she is doing so well, they moved her because there has been an influx of new smaller and sicker babies.