Abby on camera

We recently remembered that our camera has a video function. So, at long last, Abigail has made her video debut. They're silent and taken with a digital camera, so don't expect much quality-wise. But she's still quite cute.







In other news, Abigail still isn't growing enough. Her weight gain has stalled out during the last few days since she lost her IVs again. She's otherwise healthy and happy, but we think the doctors are going to give her a PICC line again so she can get some liquid nutrition and, hopefully, get back on the road to 3 pounds.

Abby's still on CPAP, but she's on a new kind. It's really no big change, but it is another sign that they might be moving her to another unit soon. Her breathing is really quite impressive for her age.

I finally got to hold Abby again today. She slept and played on my chest for more than an hour. I was so tired that I fell asleep when she was sleeping. It was almost like we were at home. We also got to help with her care, including her bath.

We also started our baby registries today. It was a little awkward at Target, because their computer system wouldn't let us use a date in the past as the arrival date. We had to settle for her due date instead. By the time we were finished at Babies R Us, we were exhausted. But it's fun to get to play with a scanner gun for a few hours, as I discovered when doing our wedding registry five years ago.

It felt good to do the registries. It was a concrete sign that Abby has turned a corner. We've left behind the "if Abby comes home" feeling and replaced it with "when she comes home, likely in a month or two."