Update 4-30-09

Good Afternoon!

Time for a quick update before the girl's start yelling at me telling me they are hungry! Both girls again gained more weight overnight. Adison now is so close to 5 pounds, hopefully tomorrow she will be there. She weighs 4 pounds 15.2 ounces today. Aubrey is close on her tail weighing 4 pounds 11.7 ounces. They are getting so big! They are also very strong girls. Both of them are holding up their heads on their own when they are getting burped.

Adison's apnea is continuing but the Dr. is now thinking it is more of an acid reflux situation with her. Once her feeding tube is out we will see what it really it. He describes her situation as she is throwing something up, not knowing what to do with it in her mouth and she stops breathing to try and fix it. The Dr. said she has great skills on swallowing she just needs to learn how to solve the problem on her own without gaging. I would love it to just be caused by the tube! That would be amazing. Aubrey is continuing to be a go with the flow girl. She does not mind being poked or prodded, as long as someone is paying attention to her. She is continuing to have no apnea, just a little tear duct that is bothering her at the moment.

Have a great afternoon and by the way - Go Blazers!

Update 4-29-09

Good Afternoon! I am so glad the weather is nice out today! Much better than yesterday! I went to the store this am and got the girl's some new sleepers. They love them and only had one pair that fit them. I love the ones I got this am - check them out in their pics!

I just got done talking with the girl's Dr. and hearing their updates for today. Both girls gained weight again overnight! This is one of their requirements for being discharged, so we are happy about every ounce. Aubrey now weighs 4 pounds 9.2 ounces and Adison now weighs 4 pounds 13.4 ounces. Both girls had their eyes looked at by the Dr. today. They both have little eye boogers (as Jeff calls them) in their left eye. The Dr. is not too worried, he is just going to watch it and see what happens. Adison had one apnea issue last night where she needed moderate stimulation. That is when the nurse needs to rub her back, etc. to get her to remember to breathe. She has to go 7 days without any of those cases before she goes home. The Dr. asked me today how I feel about maybe taking one of the girls home first and keeping Adison here until she does go the 7 days. Maybe that threat will help Adison to remember the rule of breathing!

My Niece - Rylee Braden Jensen

She is here!!!! Rylee was born at 3:19 a.m. today. She is 7.4 pounds and is 21 inches long. I can't wait to introduce her to her cousins in July.

Update 4-28-09

Good Morning! I wish it was sunny again - it is so sad looking outside the girl's window today with all this rain. Today the girl's had another great day. I just got done talking with the girl's Dr. who had great news to share again.

Both girl's gained lots of weight last night. Aubrey now weighs 4 pounds 9 ounces and Adison weighs 4 pounds 12 ounces. They are getting close to 5 pounds! I can't wait for that day to come. Today Adison only had 1 case of apnea the whole time I was with them today. I guess my talking to her worked yesterday. The Dr. also got the girl's newborn screening tests back. Adison's was totally perfect and Aubrey's came back showing an elevated thyroid producing glands/hormones. Their Dr. is rerunning the test beacause he is sure it is a false positive, like most of the positives he sees coming back on that test. We will know in a few days or so what the 2nd test has shown. I asked the Dr. how much longer the girls will be here in the NICU. The best answer he could give me is 10 days plus or minus 4 days. We are going day by day to see when they can come home! I can't wait!!!!

Update 4-27-09

First off ~ Aubrey, Adison and I would like to wish Daddy a happy birthday! He is a old 30 today!!!! The girls are doing great again today. Adison is really driving me crazy with the apnea, I just had a very serious conversation with her about how she is stressing Mommy out and it is not OK. We will see if that works! The girls both gained weight again overnight. Aubrey is now up to 4 pounds 6.5 ounces and Adison is up to 4 pounds 9.5 ounces. They are looking so big now! Aubrey is now taking 1/3 of her feedings through bottle or me. Adison is taking about 1/2 of them. They still get pretty tired during their feedings. But, to their defense it is very hard work to suck/swallow and breath at the same time! Today the girls are wearing their very cute sleepers that my Mom bought for them, check out their cute pics!

My sister is also in labor today. She was induced this AM and the Dr. broke her water at 6 p.m. tonight. Maybe Jeff will share his birthday with Ms. Rylee. We will wait and see!

Update 4-26-09

Good Morning!

Today the girls had a very exciting day. Their Great-Grandma Pat and their sudo-auntie Meg came to visit them. Thanks for coming Meg! You are going to have to send me the pics Jeff so nicely took of you with the girls.

The girls are continuing to gain weight, I guess they really want to come home huh? Today Aubrey weighs 4 pounds 3.9 ounces while Adison weighs 4 pounds 8 ounces. They are looking bigger and bigger by the day! They are now on full feeds of 40 ml every three hours. They are continuing to get mainly from me or a bottle, but they do continue to get feed through their feeding tubes if they are too tired for the other two options. Since they are preemies they do get very tired easily, which stresses them out. Once they are able to take every feeding by bottle or from me their tubes can get take out.

Today they continue to co-bed in one crib. Either tomorrow or the day after they will get split back up to two separate cribs. They split them up to see if they can regulate their body heat on their own. Right now they are keeping each other warm, but their Dr. wants to see if they can do it on their own. They also are going to be split up because all of the new research (really new, Jeff and I were told different not two months ago) is pointing to having twins in separate beds. This reduces SIDS dramatically.

Have a great day!

Update 4-25-09

Well... I am slacking behind and not updating the blog fast enough I hear. So, here we go...

Yesterday and today the girls have continued to do very well. I had to go see the Dr. yesterday but it turns out that I am just doing to much and not taking it easy. Jeff loves to point out that he has been telling me that for a LONG time. It is just very hard to take it easy when I feel good and have many things to do. Oh well, I guess I have to listen to the Dr. now.

The girls are both continuing to gain weight daily. They are both above their birth weights now. Aubrey weighs 4.3 and Adison weighs 4.7. They both are continuing to get their feedings from me or a bottle when I am not with them. We are working to give them either at both feedings, so their feeding tubes can come out. Once they are doing full feedings of either the tubes can come out. That will be great to see them without tubes up their noses. Adison is continuing to have a few apnea issues daily but she is still (for the most part) fixing it on her own without help. Both girls are also waking themselves up for feedings and are very hungry when they wake up. This is great news and another step in the right direction to get them to come home.

Today they had a big day with visitors. Their Great-Grandma and Great-Grandpa Wilson came to visit them and they got to hold them. Tomorrow their sudo-Auntie Meg is coming also with Meg's mom and their Great-Grandma Pat. As you can see from the picture, Jeff and I are working on holding both girls at the same time. It will not be long before that is our daily routine at home!!!!