Olivia is now five moths old and more alert than ever. She loves to sit up ... with help, suck on her fingers, especially on the left index and doesn't like to be cover at night at all. It is so cute to see how upset she gets when you put even a light sheet on her... she wiggles her feet as fast as she can and starts pulling the corners of the sheet away from her making cute little sounds :-) .
She still loves bed time stories or mommy to sing to her in Albanian... puts her right to sleep.
Also twice a week with the home-nurses help Livi is taking milk out of the bottle and she is doing great. She is consistency taking 1 1/2 oz by herself and enjoying every single suck.
Yesterday we had her cardiology check up. She is doing so much better. Livi is now 11 lb 6 oz and 24 inch long (quite a difference to us from a four pounder when she was born).
Her cardiologist Dr. Lee had spoken to the surgeon in U of M and they think that they can wait to do the surgery until the end of September-beginning of October as long as she continues to grow.
Also her labs are way better to what they have been since she was born. We took Olivia every week to the nephrology office for check -ups since she was discharged from NICU but we're finally getting a brake and spacing those appointments out to every other week due to her progress... she is such a FIGHTER.
Peter and I can't tell her enough how blessed we are to be her parents. She is growing so fast and we can't be more happy with her progress :-)
so good to get an update today! thanks for sharing all the good news. we think of you often. did you pick some pictures for your wall? i have something i need to get to you in the next week or two. love you three!
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