Day 10 - February 2, 2013

Day 10 was mostly uneventful, which is good thing if you're a NICU baby, but a few exciting things did happen.

Our first item of business will be poop.  Aubrey pooped for the first time today! Here's the proof, haha.

I was at work when this happened, so I shared this picture with my coworkers.  I'm sure having a picture of a baby turd shoved in their faces made their day much better.  As reported by the nurses, Paige had her first poop a few days ago, but we don't have visual documentation of hers.  Having Aubrey's first pooh as a digital image is quite exciting for me.  If, for instance, some punk rocker comes to pick her up for a date in 17 years, I can see our conversation going in this direction.....

Him: "I'll take good care of your daughter and promise to have her home by 10 PM"

Me: "Speaking of that, has she ever shown you the picture of her first poop?"

Excellent.

Andrea also had me take a picture of the different sizes of diapers used in the NICU.  The "big" diaper is a preemie diaper that you would buy at a baby store.  The two smaller ones are micro-preemie diapers that the NICU gets special order from somewhere.

Both of our girls fit most comfortably in the diaper on the left.  For times when the nurses want to leave them alone for a long time, they'll put them in the middle diaper because it can hold a lot more urine.  I have heard reports that there is a diaper even a size smaller than the one above on the left.  I'm glad the girls don't need that size.

Here's the diaper on the left in Andrea's hand.  She has pretty small hands.

While we're on the topic of size, Andrea acquired a full-sized barbie doll (nurse barbie, naturally), so that all you readers could get a better idea of the size of the twins.  Here's Aubrey vs Barbie.

Here's Paige vs Baribie.

Andrea vs Barbie

All in all, both girls are doing pretty well.  Their lungs still aren't great, but they're making progress.  When Aubrey's lungs get suctioned, there is still a little bit of pink to fluid that gets sucked out. Their X-rays are showing that their lungs are slowly improving, too.  Late in the day, Paige was switched from the oscillator (the high frequency oscillating ventilator that I described on Days 6-8 post) to a normal ventilator. She has been doing well on it, which shows that she is improving.  As long as the girls are making progress, they'll probably be able to avoid the IV steroids which I discussed in yesterday's post.

Well, that's about all I remember from Day 10.