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Holding your preemie
These are the posts where we first held Brady, skin to skin, weeks after she was born, and the visits that followed. You'll find how it felt, what made it hard, and the small moments that kept us going.
yet another day in the NICU
After two weeks of good news, Brady's heart rate starts dipping and a limb swells, but we learn we can hold her tomorrow; she's 1 lb 8 oz.
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Wonderful Day
Nearly two weeks after Brady's birth, Nikkie holds her skin to skin for the first time, for an hour, while the monitor still flashes.
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I Finally Held Her
Three weeks in, Erik holds Brady for the first time, and we take our first family photo.
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she's growing
Nikkie holds Brady for over an hour without one heart-rate dip, and we learn she's grown to 1 lb 11.5 oz and 13.5 inches.
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New Pictures
Erik posts 14 new photos, holds Brady, tries a bottle she doesn't understand yet, and gets peed on for the first time.
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Big Girl Now
Brady wears her first clothes and gets her first bottle from Nikkie, but her oxygen dips while she's held and she needs a mask.
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beep free day :)
Four people hold Brady, including both grandmothers for the first time, without one monitor alarm, and she drinks 10 cc from a bottle.
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