Anna is in Level 2!!

So she finally made it! The transfer was done on Thursday morning; we arrived in Oshawa around 2am. We have been really nervous the last few days, you know typical stuff, new surroundings, new nurses, new procedures etc. But I'm finding that as each day passes, it gets better and better. The nurses we have encountered thus far have been wonderful! They are totally supportive of me bottle feeding the breast milk and even supportive of switching to formula one day when we run out of milk. Also, there's no nonsense about not being able to bottle feed until 37 weeks. In fact, they hope to get her home by 37 weeks depending on how fast she picks up feeding.

They will start her today on her first bottle so we'll see how that goes! Upon her being accepted at Oshawa, they immediately switched her feeds to every 3 hours and increased her milk from 24mls to 42mls to compensate for the switch. She has been doing wonderfully on this new routine! She has even gained a bit more weight and is now up to 1983 grams which is about 4lbs and 6oz.

Anna also had her first bath yesterday! Which was well overdue! So things are moving quickly but she is able to keep up just fine. The nurses even take her off her monitors for a few hours at a time because they want us to get used to not depending on the monitors anymore, but instead depending on Anna's cues and recognizing whether or not she's in distress or needs to be reminded to breathe a bit heavier (she never actually stops breathing but breathes shallow sometimes when she's in a deep sleep).

So it's been really great! So far I am loving Oshawa and I am loving that she's so close. She is currently in isolation, which means we have to wear gowns, gloves and masks around her but that's normal protocol for every new transfer just to make sure she doesn't have any infections or germs that have been brought over from the last hospital. This should end sometime on Sunday or the latest Monday, all depending on how fast those staff in the labs get the results back to the NICU. I think at Women's she was only in isolation for 24 hours but they were extremely quick there with that.

Here she is getting her hair washed before her bath time (how cute!!):



M.