6 lbs!!!!

Hello, it's Dad again. As soon as we walked into Charlotte's room on Tuesday, I saw that she had reached the 6 lb mark. Hard to believe that she has doubled her weight in a little over 7 weeks. She tried taking a bottle while we were there but she would have no part of it. Charlotte kept her eyes closed to tell us that she'd rather sleep than eat. Afterwards, we had our meeting with the head neonatologist, head nurse and the rest of the NICU gang. This meeting was planned so that they can inform us of Charlotte's progress thus far, any areas she needs help in and what we should expect. It was a bit daunting at times but it is always good to hear the doctor say that he is happy with her progress. The only thing she is "slow" on right now is her bottle feeding. They aren't concerned at the moment but if she doesn't pick it up by next week, they may have to run some tests. That of course worries Mom and Dad so we had a little talk with Charlotte afterwards to remind her to work hard on the feeding part. The doctor also mentioned again to us how preemies can be susceptible to some developmental issues, which always puts a scare into us, but the hospital actually has a program which will keep in touch with us, track Charlotte's progress and work with Charlotte if needed. It is comforting in knowing that the hospital will still be there when we need them after we take our girl home. So it seems that we'll be spending some of our Thanksgiving with Charlotte in the NICU but that is OK. We're already thankful that she is here with us, healthy and just looking so damn cute. Did I mention that my little girl is cute?!?!?!?!