Relaxin...

Saki by the fire...

Growing...

I've been awful about keeping up on this but I think I have a good excuse! Things have been plugging along here in the Harms/Poley Household. Tegan is eating nonstop, which can be quite frustrating. We are still having difficulties with Breast Feeding. She still hasn't figured out how to latch on correctly and she's a slow eater who likes to fall asleep. She eats about every 3 hours, and I'm often glued in one place for at least an hour, so it's hard to get anything done. But at least she's growing, last weight was over 8lbs. She was 2 months on Christmas. I can't believe how fast time is flying by. I go back to work in 3 weeks and it makes me sad that I won't be home with her, but we gotta pay the bills. At least she will be staying home with Grandma which makes me feel better. Unfortunately because she is a Preemie she is behind developmentally, and is not doing the things a normal 2 month baby would be doing. Our pediatrician says we must go by her adjusted age, which is when she was supposed to be due, Dec 7. According to that she would only be 3 weeks old. So that's a little frustrating, but she is growing and changing. She is beginning to be more awake now, and focusing better on faces and objects. Most recently she rolled from her belly to her back, which was quite a work out for her! Here is a more recent picture of her. She has gotten quite plump!!

She's Home!

Tegan came home Sunday! I realize its Tuesday, but it's been a bit busy getting adjusted to having her home. We didn't think she would be home till Monday, but the doctor decided to send her home over the weekend because she was doing so well. I went back into the hospital on Friday to stay with her and get used to her schedule. They let us keep her in the room with us and not in the NICU. She had no more tubes! She's a big girl now! And Daddy got to change her diaper.

Time to go home!

First night home and mommy didn't sleep at all, of course. Just alittle paranoid :) But she's doing great. She had her first bath at home.

The only problem since coming home is not pooping!! Here's my pooping face:

I was trying soo hard for 2 days but no poop!! Finally after one trip to the doctor, and 2 suppositories, I pooped!! So I am a very happy baby now and so is mommy.

Tegan so far...

Tegan was born Oct 25th, 2009 at 11pm after 7 hours of labor. My water broke at 4:15pm on Sunday while watching the Bucs game (I think it was the Bucs game that did it). Anyways... thankfully we had just packed the hospital bags the day before. At about 7pm I was 4cm dilated and having contractions 3 min apart. I spent the majority of the laboring on a birthing ball, which really worked great for me. And I think it really helped to progress things along quite quickly. It was probably at around 10:15pm that I had the urge to start pushing. I pushed for about 30 min with the help of my Fiance', Mom, Sister, and the awesome OB nurse Kim. Tegan was born at 11pm, with no medication! 4lbs 7oz

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She came 6 weeks early. So she has spent the last week and 4 days in the NICU, which has been an emotional rollercoaster for me. But she has been doing great!

She first was on a CPAP because she was having some difficulty breathing, and had a central line placed in her umbilical cord. After a chest Xray they found her to have a small pneumothorax so she was taken off the CPAP and put under an Oxygen hood. During this time, I was pumping and she was getting her milk thru a small tube inserted in her mouth and into her stomach. After doing well under the Oxygen hood she was switched to 2L of oxygen with a Nasal Cannula. Then to 1L!

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She liked to pull on things and kept pulling her O2 out of her nose so they eventually took it out and she was doing fine on Room Air.

I got to hold her skin to skin for the first time.

And change her diaper!

As of today.. she is eating 36oz! Almost a total feeding, which is 38oz! She is taking a bottle and we are starting to introduce her to the nipple for breastfeeding. She no longer has her picc line and IV fluids. She's also in a regular bassinet. So discharge is within sight!