We cannot believe that our little Livy is four months old. Wednesday is when we celebrated this milestone by having a little spa time. She loves her baths.

Next milestone is Liv hit 8lbs! She is now 8lbs 5.8oz! She is our girl with sweet cheeks. And yes…we love to squeeze them.

Next milestone is today, Liv moved down to 3.5 liters! So far she has done well, and her oxygen support has not had to be adjusted. She is still hanging out in the 40s. So proud of our growing girl. Hoping if we keep going at the same weaning rate, we may be able to start trying to feed her by mouth by next week! But we will see. Don’t want to get ahead of ourselves, but so happy for her progress.

Olivia had her eye exam this morning and the doctor reported that she is heading in the right direction. Her blood vessels are still in zone 2, but further out. And still phase 1 for ROP, but improving.

I know many of you may be wondering if there is a timeline of when Liv will be able to come home. Unfortunately, there is not a way to guesstimate that. Every baby is different and makes progress in their own time. I am hoping that will be home by the end of February or early March, but we will just have to see how Olivia does with her oxygen support. And then the next challenge she has that I mentioned earlier…feeding by mouth.

You may have noticed that on “Liv’s Numbers” there are two ages. One is her age from the day she was born and the other is her “adjusted age.” Adjusted age shows what age Olivia would be if she had made it to her due date. For the first couple of years, we will be looking at her adjusted age when working on milestones. That’s not to say, that she may still hit some milestones early…or some later because of being a micro preemie, but that will be the baseline we will go off of for working on the typical baby milestones.

And I do apologize for not updating since last week. It’s harder to update now because Olivia is doing so well, we can hold her all the time now. I used to type the blogs when we were at the hospital watching her sleep in her bed, but now we hold her almost the whole time we are there. It is a good problem, but it just means I need to find time to blog outside of that time now…or when Jeremy is holding her and I am not pumping.

Here is a cute pic of Liv sleeping tonight and looking as cute as can be:

Lil’ Liv’s Numbers:

• Age: 4mos + 3 days
• Adjusted Age: 3 weeks + 3 days
• Weight: 8lbs and 5.8oz
• Length(Updated on Sundays): 18.9 in or 48 cm

Until next time…