I cannot believe she is already 32 weeks. I thought we would forever be 20-something weeks.
She has grown a lot this past week. Her face is chubby now. She put on some chubs around her hands, arms, legs, and bum. She looks a lot like a full term baby but in a small scale. She sleeps a lot and poohs a lot. When she opens her eyes, she focuses attention to those black-and-white pictures I put up on the walls of her incubator. Her oral motor skills are a lot more developed than two weeks ago. She sucks on her soother vigorously, taking a break every 5 seconds. When milk goes into her feeding tube, I put a little bit of breastmilk on the soother so that she can start to associate sucking with feeling full in her stomach. I also wanted to introduce the milk to her taste buds so that she wouldn't find it strange when we start to actually breastfeed. She seems to like the milk taste. She now gets 20 ml of milk every 2 hours.
Picture from July 14: Too bad we can't really see her face because of the CPAP mask and hat
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