Room to Grow

What's this? Two posts in the same week?

Well, I wanted to point out that the video links in yesterday's entry were a bit messed up. If you saw bugs and demons crawling all over Hannah in the videos, you weren't hallucinating. That was the result of my poor video conversion skills. I have fixed the links (I hope) in yesterday's post so they should work now.

Hannah slept in her own room and the full-size crib last night for the first time. Compared to the bassinet, which she pretty much filled from head to toe, the crib is a queen sized bed. And the queen seems to like it just fine.


(In case you're wondering if we pushed her crib down a river to take that picture . . . it's just the Jungle mural on the wall of her room)

For those of you that have been keeping up with Hannah's birthday twin, Carter, be sure to check out his blog this week. He's up in Boston getting a revolutionary new treatment for infants with liver impairment. He's been getting most of his nutrition via a feeding tube, since he had to have some intestines removed shortly after birth. The downside of that is that the liver has a hard time handling the artificial nutrition (TPN) long-term, and these babies end up with high bilirubin levels (jaundice). This new treatment is a better form of feed (with fish oil!) that allows the liver to recover and handle the TPN better until his digestive system is more mature. Unfortunately, the treatment is experimental and only available in Boston. So Chelle and Carter are up there getting healthier. Sounds like he's had a great week so far, so we're pretty happy about that. There's a great picture of a smiling Carter here.