Yet there will be so many! But here is the latest....
Abby drank an ENTIRE bottle yesterday plus 5! Daddy said she could have kept right on going too! The developmental people marveled again and said that Abby just has no idea what her gestational age is...She shouldn't be able to do that at all! This will mean, hopefully, that the girls can be upped to two bottles a day (the ultimate goal is 4). We will wait and see what the staff says. Daddy promised Abby lots of babbas and Kangaroo Care when she gets home, so she is working as hard as she can.
Ella, too, had a great bottle day. She managed 22 ccs before pushing it out with her tongue and falling into a happy sleep. She is doing really good at the bottle, and just wakes right up for me and takes her bottle like a champ. It is so amazing to know that just the act if sucking is something we figure out in utero. And to watch these babies learning how to do all the different things we learn or that come naturally in the womb on the outside is just incredible!
The girls and I have started reading "Charlotte's Webb". I think it would be so great if we could finish it at home! We are also singing Beatles songs now. No Lady Gaga yet!!
So all this sucking and sleeping is paying off. Abby weighed in at 3 lbs 11 1/2 ounces last night. And that's terrific! But the big news in the weight department? Miss Ella! She is now over 4 pounds!!! (4 lbs 1/2 ounce to be exact). This means that she is over 1800 grams. THIS means that she should be just about ready for a regular crib! THIS IS HUGE HUGE HUGE news!!!
Yesterday I was given a discharge checklist. This was very exciting...this is all the stuff we need to do before we can bring home the babies. While we are a ways off yet, this is just the light at the end of the tunnel we needed! This gives us something to work on, while we wait. Though truthfully, we have already done a lot of the things on the list.
Abby and Ella....I always say it....They are small, but they don't KNOW they're small!
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