Days 54-56 - March 18-20

Today we moved rooms for the first time!  Moving rooms in the NICU is kind of like graduating from elementary school.  It's more important symbolically than in actuality, but it does show that the girls have been making progress.  They were moved from the medically fragile side of the NICU to the medically stable side (called the "feeders and growers" portion).  Now both girls have their own window.  Here's a picture of Aubrey being moved in her incubator (picture is kind of blurry, sorry about that).

Here is Paige being moved in her incubator.

Here's Aubrey looking out (or at?) the window of her new room.

You'll notice Aubrey has the nasal cannula back in her nose.  She got a little tuckered out after breathing on her own for about 2 days, and is now on low-flow oxygen at 30 mL per minute.  To put that into perspective, when she was getting high flow it was at 2000 mL per minute at room air.  It's not really that much of a setback.

For feedings, Aubrey is now at 33 mL every 3 hours (up from 28 mL last post).  She is being bottle fed about twice per day, and takes anywhere from a low of 5 mL to a high of 12 mL.  As I stated last post, she'll need to be bottling all of her milk at each feed in order to go home.  Due to all this milk she's been eating, she hit 4 lbs today!

Paige's turn.

She has been changed over from high-flow to low-flow nasal cannula and is usually on about 100 mL per minute.  Her lung function has seemed to improve quite a bit over the past week.

Paige is receiving 29 mL of milk every 3 hours.  One of the occupational therapists attempted to bottle feed her today, but she wasn't able to coordinate the breathe-suck-swallow rhythm very well.  We'll have to try again in a few days.

A few days ago Paige got to experience being held by one of her aunts (i guess she's technically a great aunt since she's my aunt).  Here is Paige with aunt and uncle.

My aunt and uncle have had two grandkids in NICU's (one was a 28-ish weeker about 30 years ago and the other a 24-ish weeker about 10 years ago), so it's been really nice to have them visit us every few weeks.

While I was at work one day, all three girls got to have some snuggle time together.

It's cute how both girls are looking up at mommy in the second picture.  Aubrey is on the left, Paige on the right.  This picture shows how much bigger Aubrey's head is than Paige's.

Weight time

Aubrey:
     Day 1 -   2 lbs 2 oz     14 inches
     Day 8 -   2 lbs 7 oz
     Day 17 - 2 lbs 11 oz
     Day 27 - 3 lbs 1 oz
     Day 36 - 3 lbs 4 oz

     Day 46 - 3 lbs 7 oz     16 inches

     Day 56 - 4 lbs 0 oz

Paige:
     Day 1 -   1 lbs 13 oz   14 1/2 inches
     Day 8 -   1 lbs 12 oz
     Day 17 - 2 lbs 2 oz
     Day 27 - 2 lbs 10 oz

     Day 36 - 2 lbs 13 oz

     Day 46 - 3 lbs 5 oz     16 1/2 inches

     Day 56 - 3 lbs 10 oz