Emilia is 9 weeks old

Wow, time certainly flies by, and in our case, it's a good thing.
Emilia is now 9 weeks old and 34 weeks and 5 days of gestation.

I remember when I first saw Emilia right after she was born, I was amazed by how complete a preemie's anatomy was. Her body had eveything I had, only in miniature. Her tiny hand with tiny fingers, round finger tips, knuckles, finger nails, ...
And it is even more amazing that her tiny finger nails did actually grow long since birth. I wonder if she would have been born with long finger nails. Perhaps her nails are growing because of all the nutrition she gets in her milk (and fortifier).
Any way, she was pinching and scratching herself a lot recently so I tried to file her nails with an emery board. Emilia got her first manicure treatment sans coloured nail polish.




As we all know by now, she was briefly on low flow oxygen this past week. I am hoping we can try it again soon and she outdoes what she showed us last time. Any progress would be good. I don't expect to see her completely off CPAP suddenly as a lot of 25 weekers do need respiratory assistance for longer periods.

Her weight has been pretty much stalled at 2 kg. I think it's mainly because she was trying so hard on low flow oxygen. Breathing alone is a hard exercise for her and she didn't gain any weight for 2 days. Last night she weighed at 2.1kg.