Chad and Leslie are proud to welcome little Olivia Grace into the world! (born July 20, 2009)

You can email us at
lesliestevens07@gmail.com or csteven1@gmail.com, or feel free to leave your comments after any of the posts--we'd love to hear from you!

If you haven't already, click on the link for "Olivia's Endowment at Texas Children's Hospital" on the left to learn about “The Olivia Grace Stevens Endowed Fund in Neonatology” we've started at Texas Children's Hospital to help other babies and families in need, and to find out how you can contribute if you're interested.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Back on oxygen, Back off oxygen

Little Olivia isn't so little anymore, she's up to 16 pounds and continues to grow and grow. A few weeks back she had a bit of a setback when some sort of ear / sinus infection caught up with her. It seemed like she was coughing up nastiness for about 2 weeks. Because she had stuff in her lungs for most of that time, her oxygen saturations went back down and we had to be her back on supplemental oxygen. While it sucked pretty badly, we took a little comfort in the fact that we knew that it was only temporary this time.

Over the last few weeks, Olivia's congestion has completely disappeared and she's back to being her healthy and very happy self again. One completely amazing development (that all parents experience) has been her discovering her mouth. One day Leslie and I were sitting in bed with her and she just started putting her finger in her mouth! While not exactly a cure for cancer, we were ecstatic. I bet we just sat there for an hour and watched. Since then, her mouth has become her favorite toy! Here's the best picture I have so far, I'm sure we'll get a better one soon.

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