Our favorite preemie hippo is getting fatter and stronger. Bloggers for the Cincinnati Zoo write that Fiona “took two bottles this morning and seems to have more energy.” This is good news for her care team after some tense days in which Fiona was not interested in bottle feeding, perhaps due to teething discomfort. She’s also been getting fluids via IV to help fight dehydration. Keep fighting, Fiona!
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Good girl! Keep it up! I’m rooting for you!
Thank you to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital for helping!
The ear wiggling at the end has killed me.
I’m ded!
One posthumous question, though: how do you burp a baby hippo?
I too noticed the ear wiggles and am ded also.
Me too! I could go for a full minute of just the ear flippage.
Glad Fiona is eating better. Greedy babies are healthy babies. You always worry when they don’t want to eat.
Good luck little Fiona! I was also a preemie (6 weeks early) so I know the struggle, girl.
Fiona is so precious! I know when she grows up that word won’t exactly apply, but so what? She’s a precious little ball of baby blorp!
But they ended the video too soon. I wanted to hear what a baby hippo burp sounds like, and how it compares to a baby human burp!
I’m curious too! I bet a baby hippo burp would be a heck of a sound.
When the family lab was a puppy he was a foodhoover (which is to say, a lab) and would eat so fast he’d burp into his metal food bowl between gulps. It’d echo through the house.
Oh my gosh, on the blog that’s linked at the very end of the post Mike linked to, there’s a short video of Fiona getting a lotion rub to keep her skin moist! It is so sweet!
I love the closed eyes look of satisfaction has while draining her bottle and of course the ear wiggle is the cutest!
Oh good – thank you Mike! I was concerned last week w/the teething. I love at the end when the keeper gives her extra cuddles. Precious baby blorp!
OMG, the dribbling milk… *explodes* She is over-the-top blorpy and cute!
Wonderful news! Keep guzzling those bottles, Fiona, and get big and strong! (And keep wiggling those cute ears!)