4 Months Old

Life with Farrah at home, Ray working full-time, and me working almost full-time from home and now one day per week in the office is BUSY. I used to update the blog late at night but now I am starting to go to sleep since we are getting up at all sorts of different times in the night. No day (or night) is the same with Farrah, so we try to get enough sleep between the two of us to cover Farrah's feedings at night while still allowing us to function the next day.

Farrah has a good appetite and weighed in at 8 pounds, 3 ounces at her 4-month appointment today. She is snuggly fitting her newborn clothes and we have started using some of her 3-month clothes in the past few weeks. She is now 20 inches long. I have been to lots of follow up appointments with Farrah - ophthalmology, pulmonology, pediatrician, early intervention, newborn intensive care follow up program and we have some more appointments on the horizon - cardiology and pediatric surgery to look at Farrah's umbilical hernia. All of the doctors are very pleased with Farrah's progress. Farrah is starting to do tummy time a little more every day and we are still working on her breast feeding. She gets bigger andstronger every day and it is such a joy to watch her changes from week to week.

RSV season is just around the corner here in AZ, so we will continue to hunker down and keep Farrah isolated. Family members who will be spending time with Farrah this winter are getting the Tdap booster and their flu shots. Other than family, we have had very few visitors, and it will probably remain that way until the spring. Farrah cannot be around anyone who is sick because her immune system is still pretty fragile, especially with how much she went through respiratory-wise. Farrah qualified for insurance to cover a series of 5 RSV vaccines that must be administered every 28 days, and we will start with those later this week.

Hopefully I will be able to update a little more frequently in the future. I've added some of our newer photos below.

Photos from Farrah's 'newborn' photo shoot two weeks after coming home:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo from this past weekend