Kaitlyn Ryan

Our beautiful baby girl is doing a fantastic job. We started feeding her from a bottle once a day and she doing a great job. It has been a challenge since bottle feeding is new for all of us, and feeding a preemie is a little more complicated, but Kaitlyn has really taken to the whole bottle feeding experience. Yesterday she took 18.5 cc out of 25 cc! We’re moving right along. And since she is drinking all of this yummy milk, she is gaining weight too (she’s up to 2lbs 14.2oz) which means she’s doing what she needs to do to come home.

Sean got a little ahead of himself with his caffeine post. He assumed Kaitlyn was going to go on caffeine since she was having Brady’s, but the Doctors hadn’t prescribed it yet which is why his decaffeinated post came along. Well now Kaitlyn is officially on caffeine.

Sean and I have started taking the nights off from the hospital. This was a challenge in itself. We spend at least eight hours a day by our baby girl’s side, but it still doesn’t seem like enough. We are using this time to finish getting Kaitlyn’s room ready for her homecoming. Needless to say the nursery got interrupted with her surprise arrival, but we’re moving forward again. It is coming together very nicely. We will post pictures when we’re done.

I am hoping that these last couple of weeks will go by fast so we can finally have our sweet baby girl home. These past three weeks have been an emotional roller coaster and I could not have made it without the loving support of my wonderful husband. Sean has really been my rock through this whole experience. Through the good days and the bad, the tears and the smiles, he helps me get through being a preemie parent. Kaitlyn and I are very lucky!