Fixing a hole in the ocean

Day 31 and 32
Weight- 2lbs!!!!!!!!
Oxygen- High settings on CPAP
Feeds- Finally restarted
Disposition- Octopus

So if you haven't figured it out yet,  I really like the Beatles.  Like a lot.  For fun see if you can figure out which songs my posts are titled after.......

And yes, I named my children after Beatles songs.  Judge me if you will.  I feel I am justified in choosing good old fashioned names over so many peoples decision to make some new confangled name that has never been seen or heard so their child will be unique, blah blah blah.

Lucy's name really came up when someone said to me, well you always loved the show "I Love Lucy" and you know there is the Beatles song "Lucy in the sky with diamonds".  It just made sense.  And Lucy is definitely a Lucy.

Prudence came about a bit differently.  I love the name Prudence.  Most people, unfortunately, still do not.  My grandmother even asked me if she could call her by her middle name, Clara, instead.  But Prudence chose her name.  While I was pregnant, we had first settled on Penelope Lane (Penny Lane) but that didn't feel right. I liked Sadie, but you don't name your child after a song with the word "sexy" in the title.  I liked Molly but unfortunately Juan does not and it also happens to be the new slang for some sort of drug that Miley Cyrus must like.

Sigh.

So we had gone outside the realm of the Beatles which literally broke my heart and we were going to name her Rosalind Clara Perez (Rosie for short).  One morning I was driving home from work and "Dear Prudence" came on my ipod.  And she started dancing.  Not just a wiggle.  I mean River dancing.  Geeze kid.  But that was it.  I walked in and told Juan that she wanted to be called Prudence.

Once you meet her, you see she chose wisely.  It just fits her.  Such a big name for such an independent  spunky little thing.

She runs the show.

The past few days with Miss Prudence have been wonderful.  Beautiful.  She has had very few apnea episodes and has even been turned down a smidge on her C-Pap settings.  Her chest x-ray was also much improved.

Prudence-1 Pneumonia-0

We have her follow up cranial ultrasound on Sunday.  Hopefully it will show that the bleed has resolved.  She is now 30 weeks gestational which is still what we really use to measure her age.  In a few weeks if all is well, they will start allowing more holding and hopefully preliminary nippling (allowing her to try to suck on things to strengthen her reflex).  Until then hopefully we are in a holding pattern of sorts to get her to grow and get stronger.

Rigby with one of Prudence's blankets to get used to her smell

Bad Daddy's Burger Bar opened in Winston......of course Juan had to go right away

Good night from a micropreemie big sister!