Monday, June 22, 2009

Zoë loves to talk

Happy father's day Daddy!

Zoë has started to talk a lot. We noticed it at first in the mornings after she eats she will talk to herself for about 30 minutes. She doesn't do it all the time but she also started to talk to Mommy and Daddy. Today at the Auditory specialist office her and Daddy were having a long conversation. She has become so reactive to anyone that talks to her. She also discovered the TV and the ceiling fan. She stares at both for minutes on straight. She also follows us as we leave and enter the room. We pace in front of her sometimes to see how long she will follow us.

We went to the surgeon and pediatrician last week and she was 9 pounds. She does have reflux a little bit. Its not too bad but we did get medication to treat it. The pediatrician was pleased at her development. We even got the go ahead and let her sleep through the night because they were very pleased with her weight gain. Before we weren't able to let her sleep past 6 hours. We would have to wake her put to eat. She also estimates that Zoë is developing at a 3 1/2 month old pace. For preemies you are to go by her adjusted age for their milestone, which would put her a 1 1/2 months. So right now she is ahead of the game.

Zoë also started to fight her sleep. She gets fussy and you see her eyes are heavy, but she refuses to fall asleep. She'll take cat naps but she is still tired. We also think that the fussiness may be her starting to teeth. She chews on her hand and today she blew bubbles. Her NICU friend Jonathan already has his first teeth and he is a 1 1/2 months older then Zoë and he was born at 28 weeks. Her friend Scarlett was born on April 1 and she also has a tooth. So we are thinking to ourselves that it is possible. We will have to wait and see if this is one cause of her sporadic fussiness.

Today we went to the audiologist. When she was in the NICU, her right ear didn't pass the hearing test. For today's test we had to put her to sleep, she fought it for almost 1 hour (she had to be asleep for the test). Tia Lissa had kept her up all day to prepare for the test, so we knew she tired. Finally she went to sleep and the good news is that she passed. Everything looked normal. So out of her many doctors and specialist, we get to cross one off. This feels good, since it is one less office visit we have to make. We have literally had at least 1 doctor/specialist visit a week (Sometimes 3) since she came home. We had so many that the nurse at the pedestrian's office tried to make a joke when she saw all the future appointments that Zoë had. She said " You are here so much, we should just pull out a bed here in our office so that you can sleep here." Ok well I freaked out on her. I was like, NOOOOO, we were next door for 11 weeks, we will go home and come back (Zoë's pediatrician part of Phoenix Children's so her office is right next door to the hospital). My heart dropped when she said that.

We also want to thank those that help celebrate Zoë's homecoming. She is very blessed to have so many people love her. If you did not get to see her reactions, she loved it. We also apologize for the short notice, that is how it has been with her since she got here. She doesn't like to wait for our time table. She has her own agenda.

Also her room is not done yet, we are about 3/4 the way finished. It is starting to look like her room.

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