What's happened in the last couple of weeks? Sarah's flow is down to .5 and her O2% as low as 21 (room air) but she does sometimes need a little extra support so too soon to tell the cannula goodbye. Her feedings are coompressed to just 45 minutes and she's doing great with the bottle. Jonathan's needed things to slow down a bit and taken some small steps backward but his flow is back down to 1 as of yesterday. His feeds went down to an hour then back to 1.5 hours and then to 2. Guess he has more reflux issues than Sarah (she's on Pepcid and he is on Prilosec). BIG news is that Sarah has been breastfeeding for a week. Just once a day and we are still working on latching on properly though she CAN get a good latch and has gone as long as 10 minutes sucking. Jonathan started yesterday and took to it right away...he loves to suck so I knew my boy would do well! Both are over 4 lbs now...they'll outgrow their preemie clothes soon (sniff, they are so cute). Both are on a three hour schedule now so I spent 3 1/2 hours with each baby and pump for each in their respective rooms. There's a light at the end of the NICU tunnel...we are just 34 days from their due date and they should be home around then....hurray!!!!
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Hey, we all know you are busy with babes, so no worry about the frequency you post!
ReplyDeleteI love reading the great report. It must be so rewarding to breast feed them.
When they outgrow the premie stuff, I know a certain someone expecting triplets who will likely be able to use them.....