We believe the light bulb has gone on!!

As of about 48 hours ago, all 3 girls are eating their feeds via bottles!! Hollister is the only one with a feeding tube left and if she continues to show her mad skills at eating, the tube will come out Monday or Tuesday. Keller and her are also now off oxygen, Holli-mouse still needs just a little at feeding times to help her breathe but that's it. Oh, and Holli-mouse isn't the mouse at the moment, she is the biggest weighing 5 pounds 14 ouces. Keller is 5 pounds 10, and Quinn has lost a little, which I'll explain next, is weighing in at 5 pounds 13.

(Holli-Mouse)



(Keller Bear)


Quinner
Quinn, in my opinion is fine, but she had a couple very small streaks of blood in her diaper twice on Thursday afternoon and evening. If she were at home, I wouldn't have even thought twice about it, probably figuring she irritated something (it was a miniscule amount). Being in the hospital they tend to go to extremes with everything. The night doctors, being a bit more quick to jump on things (we think they are bored most of the time) ran a panel of tests and did 3 x-ray/ultrasounds. The only discovery being a pocket of gas which they then suctioned out thru a tube. For the next 12 hours she was put on an IV and not allowed to eat. By the next morning, the day team agreed suffcient probing had been done and she could go back to eating. They feel, as we do, that the fortification to the breast milk irritated her bowel. She was finally allowed to eat again and promptly sucked down 20ml and wanted more. The rest of the day she had normal feeds and was gassy but otherwise fine.

I guess all it took was a meeting to get the girls in shape! They apparently don't like to be talked about behind closed doors. They are proving those doctors wrong and will hopefully beat the goal of another month in the NICU and come home early!!