Eat Sleep Eat Sleep and Do It Some More

We are now SUPER close to home...In the past few days the twins were taken off their feeding tubes, had their final head ultrasounds, hearing tests, immunizations, and are "back to sleep".  Back to sleep is sleeping how they should at home, separately on a flat surface with minimal bedding.  They went from a really cush set up to next to nothing...poor things!

Finley is now a whopping 6lbs, 4oz and Harper is 4lbs, 14oz...they are well on their way to a respectable "term" baby weight.  It's hard for us to believe how much they've grown and changed since their birth almost 60 days ago.

Probably the biggest change is that they are also feeding on demand.  So all feeds are by mouth now and they get to dictate when it goes down...not an ideal situation for us!  We are praying they stay on a similar schedule so we're able to keep up and easily get them back on a "set" schedule once we're home. Feeding them both takes around an hour and a half to 2 hours total.  Needless to say it's been a busy and tiring few days.  We are truly now caring for these kids ourselves and while the hospital is nice, it would be a ton easier if we were home.  All the more motivation to get these kids ready to graduate from the NICU sooner rather than later...if only we could take a few of these special nurses with us : )

This is a brief post but I'll leave you with some very cute pictures taken of the twins a little over a week ago by Meghan Fonseca...

 

Hopefully our next post will be when all four of us are back living at home!  Wish us luck!!