I am still on oxygen

My lungs are still not strong enough, so I will be on oxygen for at least 30 more days. We went on Friday and Zoë still need a little bit of help so that she can grow and not lose so many calories. This way she can grow new lung tissue and get off the machines sooner. Good news is that on Friday, she weighed in at 8lbs. She is getting big and we even had to adjust her car seat so that she can fit right. It was getting a little tight.

Zoë has also been out on the town. She went to Mommy's work, where she met everyone in person. She had been around them for the first 6 months that she was getting ready to be born. She also went to Macy's, CPK and to Juan and Vero's house for their baby shower. She wanted to give Daniella a present, since this will be her play mate when Daniella is born and comes to Arizona to visit. She also went to Pei Wei and Pita Jungle. She did really well and didnt mind those that held her. This is result of the NICU, since she had different nurses take care of her, she got used to different people holding her. Which is a good thing. But she does love it and has even screamed for Mommy to hold her.

Mommy also went back to work on Monday and Daddy was out of town since Sunday. He came back yesterday. We all survived but we both missed Zoë. She has had a good time with Tia Lissa taking care of her. She is a really easy baby to take care of. She does fight with Tia Lissa when she is trying to fix her nasal cannula for the oxygen. Zoë tries to swipe her hand away. It was weird leaving work and going straight home. I was going the opposite direction of the hospital. But it felt good when I got home and she was there waiting. However we have not lost some of our NICU habits. We are still counting everything and have a set up sort of like it was at the NICU. We count every CC and diaper change. We even dim the lights and try to emulate the environment we had there so that Zoë can feel like she did when she was in the NICU. Even when we talk to the doctors we use terms that no other new parent would even use or think to ask. Like "how many CCs per kilo should we be at now that she is 8lbs" or "Is she getting enough calories and will that stimulation make her loose calories". Another good one is when they weigh her, the nurses give us the lb and oz, we ask for her weight in grams. We have even started pressing the buttons on the scale without asking the nurse if she was ready. They are the same scales from the NICU that we became experts at. We have caught ourselves at our many doctor visits doing one of the above.

Zoë's room is almost ready. We just need a couple of more things to finish but it is looking like her room not the storage/office room that we had before.

Zoë is doing really good. She is happy baby. Thanks for everyone's well wishes. I will post some pictures this week.