Emilia is 100 days old

Emilia is finally 100 days old (actual) and 40 weeks in gestation, meaning 0 days old in corrected age.

Emilia couldn't have the traditional Korean 100th day party or cake, but Mommy and Daddy dressed her up for a photo shoot in the makeshift photo studio (ie. her hospital crib).














Bonus:

"FEED ME!!!" (밥줘!!)

Pooping is a huge task!

Emilia seems to strain a lot when stooling. Her stool is always soft/loose so I don't know why she strains so much as if she is constipated. Even her oxygen saturation rate drops when she stools. Is it that hard??

Some pictures of Emilia pooping... (I wanted to capture her funny facial expressions)

Fist in the air


Agonizing


Grimacing


Phew...relief :)

Emilia is 14 weeks old

Yes, she is now 14 weeks old (just 2 days shy of 100 days old).
Time has gone so fast. I cannot say it's always been a happy time but I don't think it's always been too difficult and sad either. This little one has given me a lot of grief for sure but also a lot of happiness to balance off.

Yesterday we removed her feeding tube finally. She is fed orally - either breastfeeding or bottling. Even her medicine is given orally, mixed with my milk in a bottle. One less tube on her face! She looks so much nicer... I am so looking forward to the day she won't need any kind of tube on her face, but that will take some time.

She acts more like a grown baby now. When she wakes up, she cries for food. When fed, she falls asleep. Repeat the cycle.

Her respiration has not changed. Still needs extra oxygen via low flow, around 100-125 cc/min.

She still has the reflux problem. She still gags and coughs...and gets a spell. By the way she needs to be spell free for one week before she can come home.

Just chilling, in my bouncy chair


"Give me food!!!!"