When we had first gotten there and i took her temp i was waiting to show the nurse (who had gone to put the milk we brought into the freezer) and while i was waiting Avery reached up and pulled out her feeding tube and then in a show of "ha ha ha, i did that" she started playing with her tongue and very much enjoyed herself.
Avery also got to wear her very first outfit today. The hospital has a program called "polka-dots for preemies" or something like that. What it is, is that people (mostly former NICU parents) donate their kids old clothes when they outgrow them (preemie, newborn and 0-3month sizes). The clothes are then used for the babies in the NICU, then hopefully more parents donate and the cycle continues. So Phillip and I have decided that as Avery outgrows her small sized clothes we donate them to the NICU (just the clothes that we ourselves purchase, all borrowed clothes will be returned to their owner) so that we can help someone elses baby the way that someone is helping Avery now.
Avery offically "outgrew" micro-preemie diapers, she didn't actually outgrow them but they said the preemie ones would be more comfortable for her. So Avery is now wearing regular preemie diapers and they are giant on her. She now has her security anklet on her so that nobody can attempt to steal her. She is almost certainly going to be an outie. As of today is is WAY WAY WAY more active and they keep her swaddled a lot of the time so that she doesn't pull on wires or tubes (like pulling her feeding tube out today) because she is so active.
Hopefully i didn't forget anything, its late and i am tired. So here is a picture from today of her wearing her first outfit!
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