Saturday, January 28, 2012

cute baby girl at 10 months.



I am IN LOVE with these pictures my talented friend Natalie took of Darla Jane. I am going to use them in some of my congenital heart defect awareness efforts. If this face doesn't convince you to spread awareness of the #1 cause of birth defect related deaths in babies, I don't know what will.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

9 months old

On Monday we had a 9 month check up for our little miss. Here are her stats...
Height - 26.5 inches 19%tile
Weight - 19 lbs 53%tile
Head circumference - 17.5 inches 78%tile
She is still on the short side but growing. Last time we checked she was in the 11%tile for her height. And she actually went down a little in her weight "ranking" but as you can see...still not a problem. I really can't get over how amazing she does at gaining weight (she gets that from her mother).
She also got 5 pokes, between her 9 mo immunizations and her synigis shot. But so far...no throwing up so maybe the synigis isn't my enemy after all. She was a little cranky yesterday but today she's been great!
We are on 1/4-1/2 liter of oxygen at nights and during the day we are off the oxygen about half the time! Working slowing but getting there. I had a heart mama say that the day they were done with the oxygen she just wanted to take her baby and run around the block, just because she could. Well, I know that feeling. And although I won't be running Darla Jane around the block in the middle of winter I do take her to the farthest corners of the house that her hose would never reach on the days she's tube-less.

we sure are loving this girl!

and she is 9 months old!