It’s already been more than a month since Ben’s newborn photo shoot, so he has changed tremendously, but these photos will always serve as a good reminder of what he looked like right around his due date. He was 7 weeks old and probably around 5ish pounds I think. Our photographer, Kim Hildebrand, did such …
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Ben is Two Months Old!
Ben turned two months old on July 31st! And according to his doctor yesterday, he’s acting like a two month old and not like a preemie. That was music to our ears! Overall, Ben is doing exceptionally well. His height is officially “on” the charts {2nd percentile} and his doctor told us at his next …
The Happenings
Things sure have been busy over here in our house the last week or so! We’ve been loving the summer weather that has finally arrived in Seattle, so, naturally we’ve been getting out and about and enjoying the sunshine quite a bit. My dad was here for a visit last week and got to meet Ben. …
Too Busy Having Fun!
Well it’s been about two weeks since I posted an update about how Ben is doing and I can’t believe how fast that time has gone by! We have been so busy having fun that I’ve neglected writing an update. I’ll just let the pictures from the last couple weeks speak for themselves…
Memory Lane
About 3 weeks ago, one of the NICU volunteer photographers came around to the bedsides of different babies and offered to take photos. I just received them and boy was it a trip down memory lane. While I’ve all but forgotten about our time in the NICU, it was nice to see such beautiful photos …
A Family of Three
Now that Ben is home with us it feels much more like we are a family. Life is so much calmer, we’re so much happier and everything feels normal and natural. We are so overwhelmingly happy to be home! On Sunday morning we found out that Ben was getting discharged, and by some miracle, our …
Home.
Benjamin came home today! All is well and we couldn’t be happier. I’ll post more about his homecoming and discharge once we get settled.
The Homestretch
Today marks day 26 in the NICU. We probably won’t know for sure when Ben is coming home until the day he is discharged, but we do know we’re in the homestretch. Ben is doing fantastic, amazing and superb and is SO close to being ready to go home. This last week has been filled …
NICU Life
I’ve shared a lot about how Ben has been doing and in turn it gives a little bit of background to our NICU experience, but I really haven’t talked much about what it’s like to have a baby in the NICU. Ben has spent 20 days in the NICU so far, and some of them have …
Ben is Two Weeks Old!
Time is flying by {thankfully!} and our little boy is two weeks old! We have had so much fun getting to know Ben and seeing his personality start to show – he’s such a character already. We can’t wait to continue watching him grow up. One of my favorite things about Ben is how expressive …