Wubbies!

We bought the girls some little companions for their stay. They play music and make white noise. We hope it will get the girls accustomed to familiar sounds since home is not going to sound at all like the NICU.

Of course, it also made a great opportunity to take cute pictures. I specifically wanted to do this so that I could prove to the girls how small they once were ("see how much bigger the giraffe was than you?")

Quinn is doing really well. She is up to 3lb, 9oz and has been able to take a few cc's of her food via a bottle rather than her feeding tube. All of this is very positive progress. Hopefully she can begin breastfeeding soon.

Hollister is up to 3lb, 1oz. Her weight gain has been very steady for the last several days. She has been developing a little bit of a reflux issue--it causes her to have mild "desat" events after 30 min of her 1 hr feed. Her nurses yesterday extended her feeding time from 60 to 90 min and believe this will stop the problem.

Hopefully, once Hollister has her feeding tube out, the reflux will diminish. Part of the problem is that the tube holds open her esophagus and aggravates the reflux.

Keller is allowed to keep her isolette open now (like Quinn was a few days ago). She is up to 3lbs, 2oz and is also doing great. She has less reflux than Hollister. She has tried a bottle feeding and did fine until the milk hit her throat...then she kind of forgot what to do.

We'll keep trying.

On our way back up for another visit this AM.