Latest Pictures - Being Parents of Preemies

Being parents of preemies in the NICU makes Myra and I members of an elite club with certain benefits including:

• The parking clerk, security guards, and NICU coordinators all recognize us now.
• We spend a lot more time having conversations about poop.
• We have carefully mapped out all the restaurants in the area and know which ones are most likely to seat and serve us quickly in-between care times.
• Daddy had a perfect excuse to not attend the boring 2-hour all hands meeting at work - it would have interfered with a hospital visit.

The girls are doing really well and are up to 3 bottle-feedings a day. They are definitely on the path to come home and we can't wait!

Both girls are still on Nutramigen and they both are getting used to the taste. The stuff smells like Cheese-its and apparently is somewhat salty. Little Sophia had an incident of what we refer to as EBS (Explosive Butt Syndrome) yesterday and surpassed the capacity of her pampers in quite the explosion. She did this while I was holding her, and stunk like cheese-its and poop. I think I'll lay off the cheese-its for a while.

Here are some pix of the girls from last night:

Here's Miss Mila sporting the latest fashion in baby-headwear. Doesn't she look like a little elf?

And here she is getting burped my mommy. Mila lost a little weight when they took her off her feeds for two days, but she's now back up to about 5lbs 2 oz.

Here is Miss Sophia mugging for the camera. Sophia now weighs 5lbs 3oz (yes even more than her sister). That means that she gained 2 pounds in the 1 month that she's been alive or about 66%. that's like a 150 pound person gaining nearly 100 pounds in 4 weeks.

And here's Sophia with mommy - about to eat.

Both girls are having fewer and less severe spells. It looks like their digestive issues are clearing up too. They are gaining weight and taking more and more food by mouth. These are all benchmarks for them to come home.