Time to Dance

Ruby is officially 4 pounds today plus an ounce. She is still on her nasal cannula, no CPAP mask for a couple days now. She got a new kind of bed last night. This is the transition bed from isolet to crib. On this bed, they can gradually adjust the temperature and when they get it down to room air temp and they know she'll tolerate it, she gets a crib! The fact that I just put an exclamation point at the end of that sentence gives me an excellent segue. Our milestones are not major the way they were when Ruby was sicker. Before she was even a week old, Ruby had an intestinal perforation and a surgeon repaired it by giving her an ostomy. Before we can go home, we want to put Ruby's guts back together but before we can do that, Ruby needs to weigh 3 kilograms or about 6.5 pounds. This is my explanation for the focus on weight gain. Since the progress could be a little slow (who are we kidding, it's painstakingly slow), we are going to celebrate every seemingly insignificant change. Every. Change. My apologies in advance.