Keegan sends her holiday cheer!

Caught her taking a quick nap to rest up for an all night party!

Keegan Feeds Herself!

Keegan accidentally had her hands meet up on her bottle, and she held it herself, she is growing quick, but still keeping her mom up all night.

Keegan's Hanging Out

She is getting close to 9 pounds, but continues to want to eat every 2 hours. Hopefully as she gets a little older in adjusted age (she is 1.5 weeks old adjusted) and approaches 10 pounds we might get a little longer stretch of sleep without having to feed her. This position seems to work well for her to calm her down and help with the burps!

Happy Halloween!

Thanks to cousin Georgeanne for the outfit.

Keegan Models Some Giant Booties!

One of Great Grandma's church friends made her these boots, she wears them proudly for about 30 seconds before kicking them off. Everything seems to be going well for the family, Keegan feels like she is growing, and is slowing increasing how much she eats at each feed, she is under house arrest during the RSV season, and having visitors is frowned upon until her due date of 11/6. I try and kick Julie out of the house once in a while to keep her sanity, and I'm stuck with physical therapy 3 days a week, about 2 hours each session.

Keegan Taking Some Tummy Time

Keegan has been doing well, although a bit demanding. Julie isn't working so is handling the majority of the overnight feeds (Keegan wakes up every 2 to 3 hours ready for food). Here is a picture of her resting on the floor. She had her first checkup, and is now up to 5 pounds 8.5 ounces, continuing her weight gain of at least 1 ounce a day.

Keegan Goes Home!

OK, so this is old news - but trying to keep the pictures in chronological order. Here is a picture of Keegan getting ready for the ride home. Not sure what set she is claiming, but she is throwing up the signs.

Keegan's Latest

Here is one of the more current pictures of Keegan, she still has the feeding tube, but she is now up to bottle feeding whenever it looks like she is wanting too. She has been increasing the amount of milk she is able to take through the bottle, which is the last hurdle before she will be allowed to come home. She is up to 4 pounds 5.7 ounces, which is about 1 pound more then her birth weight. Hopefully she keeps up the weight gain, maybe hit 5 pounds before she comes home.

Keegan takes a nap

Keegan takes a nap

Keegan and her dad

Keegan and her dad Kangaroo.

Keegan's Second Bath

She is bathing now about every 3 days, this is bath number 2 that Julie took part of.

Keegan Comes Early!

After some signs Julie wasn't doing too great and a quick trip to our favorite breakfast place, Keegan arrived via emergency c-section 9 weeks earlier then planned.She weighed in at around 3 pounds 5 ounces, required oxygen through a CPAP, which delivers pressure to dry out the lungs.

Julie had some spotting earlier in the morning, after the on call nurse told her just to take it easy, we went for a leisurely trip to the AZ Bread Company for a power breakfast.After returning home, Julie had the same issue she had earlier, after the prompting of her sister to just go into the hospital, we headed to Banner Desert Hospital.

Julie didn't want me to drop her off, so I drove around the parking lot for 5 minutes looking for a spot, she finally let me drop her off. I found a spot shortly after that, and when I arrived, she was on a bed in an observation room. Five minutes later a nurse is hooking up the monitors for the heart beat and contractions, and all appears fine.

I'm playing my Nintendo, and Julie is just hanging out, when she asks me, "Does the heart beat sound slower now?" I told her I didn't know, and should I call a nurse, that is when the poo hit the fan. We hear some loud beeping out at the nurses station, there is cursing, questions about who Julie is, and our original nurse appears to have stepped out for a second.

Julie is rolled over on her side and is looking at me and starts to cry, she is wheeled off to the OR, I'm left holding our belongings and waiting in the hall way. In approximately 15 minutes, I'm walking with my daughter up to the NICU while Julie is being closed up.