Happy One Week Birthday Calla

Calla is one week old and we celebrated with some cupcakes for the NICU nurses that have been taking great care of Calla and she wore her first litttle pink outfit, doesn't she look so cute. We are also celebrating that Calla has gained almost 40 grams of weight over the past two days. She is almost back up to her birth weight. She is doing everything just right.

Mom and Dad also gave Calla her first sponge bath today. I think it was a little tramatizing to Calla and Mom. It sounded like we were torturing her, she has never grabed both of our hands so tight. I think it is safe to say that she did not like her first bath. But then Calla got some chest to chest time with both Mom and Dad and she calmed down pretty quickly.

Calla has been doing great, but she is still having a lot of episodes were she stops breathing for a second and her heart rate goes way down. She is able to come out of them on her own and it is totaly normal for premature babies to do this, but it is still really scary.

We hope everyone is doing well and we thank everyone for the calls and emails. We are sorry we can not answer them all right now. It is amazing how fast the days are going by hanging out in the NICU with little Calla. It is hard to believe we have been down in Eugene for 10 days now.

Well that is it for now, it is time to get some sleep, goodnight.