Mary Clare and I packed up and hit the road again yesterday for a check-up at MUSC. I think I’ve finally mastered the road trip with a newborn. PLANNING makes all the difference, and a quality 30 minutes of feeding, changing, entertaining and baby stretches in the car PARKED in the garage prior to departure helps too!<\/p>\n
Good news! Mary Clare is now a healthy 9 lbs 2 oz and doing great! We return for an echo and ekg in 2 weeks. (As usual) She also has to have another hearing test.?? For some reason, babies on heart\/lung bypass machines are required by DHEC to have a specific round of hearing tests over the course of the first year??!! Her hearing was tested in the hospital before she was discharged and everything was fine. However, I question the results when she peacefully sleeps for hours while McCanless sings at the top of her lungs, screams, barrels through the house, etc., etc everyday.<\/p>\n
Mary Clare is eating a tiny bit more, but what I’ve noticed lately is how much more aggressively she is eating. Those typical baby grunts and gulps are great to finally hear!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mary Clare and I packed up and hit the road again yesterday for a check-up at MUSC. I think I’ve finally mastered the road trip with a newborn. PLANNING makes all the difference, and a quality 30 minutes of feeding, changing, entertaining and baby stretches in the car PARKED in the garage prior to departure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}