Emilia is 10 weeks corrected age

She is 2.5 months old now. Still growing well and developing normally. I can't say how grateful I am that she's doing well. I stopped worrying about her oxygen altogether. I think it will be better if I just forget about it until she comes off oxygen next spring, although I think I will ask the respiratory medicine doctor at Sick Kids when she goes to her appointment next week.

She weighs 5.7 kg (12.5 lb). An amazing transformation for a 25 weeker who was born merely 870g, as all the nurses told me this week when we went to MSH and NYGH.

She sleeps longer chunks of time at night. Yeah, I am one of those lucky moms who can actually get some good sleep at night. Some nights I spring out of bed to check the time and check on her because she goes on sleeping for 6 hours sometimes without feeding. I get all worried about dehydration and starvation, but the doctor and nurses tell me not to worry because she's still gaining weight and she's old enough to tell me when she is hungry.

Developmentally, she had her first "social" smile and laugh last week. Now I know that it's not just passing the wind when she is smiling at me. She does smile and laugh (like "real laughter" laugh)a lot during sleep though.
She is having a better head/trunk control and her thumbs are definitely better. She is less reluctant to open her thumbs now. Yesterday when I was lifting her up by her shoulders, she tucked her chin in to keep her head elevated. I almost cried with joy. I had been practising this with her for a week to get her neck muscles working when being lifted up and she finally got it I think. My mom says when she raised me and my brother, she didn't have to do these special exercises and tummy time. She says babies naturally have head control and roll over when the right time comes. Maybe the modern day moms are making the mommy job a lot harder than it already is but I don't think there is any harm in trying to keep her going in the right direction, at the right speed.