Happy Two Week Birthday, Catherine!
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Yesterday, Catherine passed her car seat test!
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In infants with certain respiratory and other problems, doctors will often request that they take a ‘car seat test’. This simply involves placing the child in a car seat while they are still hooked up to their vital sign monitors. They remain in the car seat for two hours, and their vitals are monitored for the duration. If they don’t have any serious drops in their vital signs, they pass! Catherine passed with flying colors, so that is great news! She is one step closer to coming home. The doctors have still not given her the official okay to head home, but the rumor we have heard is that it could be this weekend, possibly Saturday. So keep your fingers crossed!
Also last night, we let the folks at the hospital take care of Catherine, and we went out to dinner with Becky’s family to celebrate Dianne’s birthday!
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We had dinner at [Vinny T’s](http://www.vinnytsofboston.com/). We wish that Catherine could have come along, but she will be able to soon enough!
You can see [yesterday’s Catherine pics here](http://prwdot.org/gallery2/v/baby/catherine_day_14/) and the [pics from Dianne’s birthday here](http://prwdot.org/gallery2/v/events/2006/dianne_birthday/).
She looks so good!
I had just heard of the “car seat test” from another couple this morning with a preemie baby.
I love the photo of Catherine sitting in the carseat. She looks like she’s done this 100 times and has an expression on her face that says, “Come on, mom and dad, I’m ready to go! What’s the hold up?” Something about her two fists holding onto the blanket =)