Month two was a milestone in it's own regard. We had to go back to Northwest Medical to see if Morgan would pass her oxygen test, and finally be able to ride in a normal car seat. My nerves were definitely on edge, but Mike and I both felt she would pass by this point. The test took place in the NICU, she was placed in her car seat with numerous gadgets attached to her. The test was 90 minutes long, and my worst fear was that she would wake and start crying (I don't believe in the cry themselves to sleep method, so I comfort her when she is upset, I wouldn't be able to do that if she started crying during the test). Thankfully, she slept through the entire thing and passed with flying colors! We gladly ditched the car bed, and moved on to bigger and better things...a car seat:)
At two months of age Morgan was still below 6 pounds, off the percentile scale, but healthy overall. We were still having weekly pediatrician appointments, that gave me anxiety at the thought of them. Our pediatrician is amazing, but with any low weight birth babies there is a fear, if the weight is not gained like a normal size baby, that there might be problems internally not allowing weight gain. My Pediatrician tossed around the idea of having Morgan see a GI specialist, which could possibly involve scoping, but thankfully trusted in us as parents and listened to our reservations of having sch procedure this early on, and allowed extra time for her to "catch up on weight" as long as everything else seemed normal.
Brody loves his little sister more than I could have every imagined. He is so kind, and so caring toward her. She is one luck little girl to have such a cool big brother. Brody is in 3rd grade now!!! He excels in school, everyone loves him and he is simply one very amazing little boy.
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