We keep getting nothing but great news. Spent several hours with the girls this morning. We got them out of the incubators and were able to change their diapers, feed them and hold them. Best morning I've had since Ryley was born.
The news on their conditions has been great. Zoey is a champ. She has been doing great since minute one. She is up to eating 30ml at a time which given her weight is perfect. Nikki is doing almost as well. They had her on a breathing mask, so she hadnt been able to eat. They took that off last night and has been breathing just fine on her own, they also got her to take 5ml of food. When we were down with them this morning, she took another 10ml and probably would have taken more. They are going to keep upping their intakes to get their weight up.
Ryley was brought by today and he got to hold Nikki for a little bit. He was beyond excited, he almost exploded when she opened her eyes and looked at him. He did really well with them, he's going to make a great big brother.
Went down again for their afternoon feeding, but we missed it. We were happy to find out that Nikki took 35ml, which is perfect and brings her right up to pace with her sister. We gave them another feeding a few hours later and both of the took an easy 30ml.
We also had a discussion with the discharge nurse and the girls were discussed in today's briefing. Assuming we stay on course, the girls should going home sometime between Thursday and the following Thursday which is way better than the five weeks we were originally told.
I've got a lot of pictures to share, but I can't post more than one from my phone and that's all I've had to use the last few days.
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