We had another good day today. Both Ella and Emma have eaten their entire bottles for the last 5 bottle feedings in a row. They also did well nursing at the 8:00 am and 2:00 pm feedings. We decided to let them bottle feed at the 8:00 pm feeding and not nurse to see how well they would do with their entire bottle. Ella finished hers off in less than 15 minutes, and Emma finished hers in about 20 minutes. I had a very nice conversation with the night nurse about what happens next. She said she would talk to the practitioners when they made rounds about allowing Ella and Emma to bottle feed at every feeding time. They would only tube feed if the girls would not wake up for a feeding and/or did not finish their bottles. Once they have taken all feedings by bottle/ nursing for about 2 days, we will start looking at going home. So.. the end may be in sight, and we may get to bring our babies home fairly soon. We are hoping and praying that it will be about a week or less. It has been really hard to leave them at the hospital every day.
Ella is wide awake after eating.
Emma fell asleep. Of course, she had also had a bath.
Unfortunately Bryan was not able to be with me to hear this good news today because his throat was pretty sore this morning. He went to the doctor, got a shot, and will be able to go see them tomorrow (24 hours after getting the antibiotic).Since Bryan could not go in the see the girls, my mom took me to up to the hospital for the 2:00pm feeding. As I was feeding Ella, the nurse was changing Emma. She came up to me and said Emma was going to need a bath. Apparently she had a blow out diaper that was very stinky. It went half way up her back, and I could smell it from about 5 feet away. Needless to say, Bryan was not too sad he missed out on that. If he had been there, he probably would have been the one to discover it. So, Grammie got to give Emma a bath. Emma did NOT enjoy it nearly as much as Grammie did. (Lots of crying and screaming.) She calmed right down when getting her hair washed though.
Grammie washing Emma's hair
1 comment:
I am so glad you have a blog so I can keep up with you and your growing family! It is still hard for me to believe that you have TWO BABIES at once, but I know the Lord will give you grace to handle it. The pictures are wonderful, and I am praising God that you and the babies are healthy and doing well! :-)
Love from Alaska,
Lisa
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