So far, she is just as any other one month old baby. Cries when hungry, pees & poos, and sleeps. Nowadays I am also playing with Emilia to give her exercise & stimulating time as recommended. She gets tummy time, side-lying time, and eye contact time. She is doing excellent on her tummy, lifting her head high and turning her head from left to right and then again from right to left. Her side-lying time is basically just lying on her side and watching the Aquarium (a Fisher Price toy that goes in the crib). She wasn't too interested in the Aquarium until today. Today she was actually intently watching it. Her eyes follow bold black/white pictures when I slowly move them horizontally. She also gets to look around the surroundings when I carry her around her crib as far as her oxygen tube and other cords allow me. I wish the tubes and cords were longer so that I could carry her farther around the NICU. She looks at her musical mobile too. This also just started to interest her only yesterday.
Her growth is still satisfactory. The dietician was explaining to the residents that Emilia is a good example of a baby who became the average size from the 10th percentile when full term was reached. She was showing Emilia's growth chart to them and explained how she progressed last 4 months in her own growth curve reaching finally the 50th percentile.
Starting tomorrow, I am going to seat her in the car seat to get her used to it. She has been sitting in her bouncy chair but she needs practice sitting in the car seat too in order to pass the car seat test before the discharge. It's sort of a... test preparation. I don't want her to fail her first test.
Pictures from this week:
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