Dreamers double their weight!

It wasn't as exciting when I did it.  Oh, but for Kenna, weight gain is the best news ever.

We waited five weeks for it to happen.  And you wouldn't think it would take that long to gain 9 ounces.  Apparently, for Kenna, it's a lot of work.

And I stared at her last night, trying to decide if she looked twice her weight.  She wasn't twice her size, since she was only an inch longer than she had been at birth.  Still, double the weight...wow!

I have to tell you, things have grown very interesting with Kenna.  There is some definite progress, even though she is still on the ventilator.  And this is what has been decided. 

• She is going to get about two weeks to work on gaining weight and muscles.  These muscles are incredibly important so that she can have what she needs to breathe on the CPAP, which is just about the same as saying that she is going to be breathing on her own.  Wow.
• Over the next few days, she is going to be working on getting up to full feedings...which is 10ml per feeding for her.  Right now, she is at 6.3ml.  Every 12 hours, she gets another .6ml added to the feeding.  So, she'll be on full feedings by Thursday.  And these feedings will be enhanced with the infant version of protein powder.  So that each feeding is an extra six calories.  It may not seem like much, but that's a lot.  
• Once she is on full feedings for a week, she can have her central line removed...by the professionals.  Kenna took one out of her arm weeks ago.  And they showed her by placing the new one in her leg where it was safe from her grabby hands.

At the rate she's going, she could be in the elusive Special Care Nursery in a matter of a month or so.  Then she'll just need to work on gaining weight.  That would be nice.  We could touch her more and hold her more and spend more time with her.

Big changes as afoot.  We're so very excited.