2/13/07: Day 214 (Tues.) Seeing the Eye Doc

Evan had his follow-up appointment in Tucson with Dr. Miller. He's the pediatric ophthalmologist who checked performed his eye exam when he was in the NICU. The medical assistant first used drops to dilate his eyes. We didn't see Dr. Miller until about 30-40 minutes later (I guess the rain made everyone late).

His exam took about 10 minutes and Evan did great. Dr. Miller used a little magnifying lens and checked the back of his eye. He was able to determine that Evan is far-sighted right now, but not to worry. Since he doesn't have any cross-eye or lazy-eye problems, he expects Evan to end up being near-sighted just like his parents! He still is officially diagnosed with ROP, but is expected to grow out of it.
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Chronological age: 30 weeks and 4 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 4 months, 4 weeks and 0 days
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2/7/07: Day 208 (Wed.) Diaper Change!

I forgot to mention in the other update that Evan in now in size 2 diapers. It's a little thing, but shows he's growing bigger!
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Chronological age: 29 weeks and 5 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 4 months, 3 weeks and 1 days
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2/5/07: Day 206 (Mon.) A Little Update

Apologies on not posting so often...things have been hectic. So many people have been asking how the little guy is doing that I need to give a little update! He's doing great!! Knock on wood...no illnesses at all so far this winter. His latest achievement is sticking his tongue out (as evidenced in his 6-month old pictures). He is still waking at least once during the night to eat. We've pushed him to taking 5 ounces at least every four hours or so to try to get more weight put on him. He was a little less than 12.5 pounds at his doctor's appointment last week. His pediatrician didn't seem too concerned about his weight.

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Chronological age: 29 weeks and 3 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 4 months, 2 weeks and 6 days
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2/4/07: Day 205 (Sun.) Congrats to the Colts!

O.k...so the Steelers couldn't be in the Super Bowl...I can still be happy for a fellow AFC winning team. At least some of the commercials were entertaining. Evan slept through the second half of the game (as did most of the world).
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Chronological age: 29 weeks and 2 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 4 months, 2 weeks and 5 days
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2/2/07: Day 203 (Fri.)

This weekend I am traveling to Los Angeles for a sorority leadership conference.
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Chronological age: 29 weeks and 0 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 4 months, 2 weeks and 3 days
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1/27/07: Day 197 (Sat.) Dancing With Grandma

A video of Evan dancing with his Grandma.

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Chronological age: 28 weeks and 1 day
Adjusted/developmental age: 4 months, 1 week and 4 days
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1/26/07: (Fri.) 6 Month Picture Day!

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Chronological age: 28 weeks and 0 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 4 months, 1 week and 3 days
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1/22/07: Day 192 (Mon.) Wow Did It Snow!

We woke up this morning to a major snowfall! They ended up closing post, so we couldn't get to work.





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Chronological age: 27 weeks and 3 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 4 months, 0 weeks and 6 days
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1/21/07: Day 191 (Sun). Snowing!

The snow is starting to fall tonight! The vid is a little dark.


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Chronological age: 27 weeks and 2 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 4 months, 0 weeks and 5 days
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1/17/07: Day 187 (Wed.) I Love Bouncing!

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Chronological age: 26 weeks and 5 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 4 months, 0 weeks and 1 days
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1/16/07: Day 186 (Tues.) 6 Month Check-up!

Today was Evan's 6-month well-baby exam (and shots, yuck). Dr. Ettinger was happy to see how big and chubby Evan is getting. We filled him in on the info we got from the pulmonologist yesterday, and he suggested we take him completely off the O2. When they were taking his vital signs, they did a pulse oximeter reading on him, and he was registering 97%, which is excellent.

Evan didn't like being poked and prodded, but did well during the shots. He only got 2 injections this time. Funny to find out that Dr. Ettinger is also a U of Florida graduate. He saw T's Gator lanyard and commented on the Florida win last week. The Gator Nation is everywhere!

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Chronological age: 26 weeks and 4 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 4 months, 0 weeks and 0 days
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1/15/07: Day 185 (Mon.) Another Trip to the Pulmonologist

We made our third trip to the pulmonologist in Tucson. We had our fingers crossed that we would get the green light to take Evan off the O2. When we got there, I overheard the nurse saying Dr. Brown wasn't there that day (he was the second specialist we saw, the first was Dr. Morgan). This time, we saw Dr. Daines, the third different doctor. They didn't even have a nurse there to take his pulse oximeter reading, so it was a quick visit.

Dr. Daines played cautious and told us to take him off the O2 during the day, but put him back on at night. We have to come back in another month (aargh). The receptionist had me call a different number to get an appointment since they were already booked up for the clinic a month from now.
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Chronological age: 26 weeks and 3 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 3 months, 3 weeks and 6 days
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