A Good Start To the Month

So far, September has been good to us and both babies have been doing pretty well.  Cooper is now 4 pounds 6 ounces and is starting to learn how to use the bottle!  So far, he has tried about 5 times and each time he gets better and eats more!  At just 33 weeks gestation he is starting to get the hang of the "suck, swallow, breathe" pattern, though sometimes he still forgets to breathe! :)  He is only trying 2 a day at this time and still gets the majority of his feedings through his tube.  They have told us that most of the time babies don't really start the bottle feeding process until about 34 weeks, so we are very proud of our little overachiever!  

Kinley is doing much better this week.  She is tolerating her feeds well with only 1-4 cc's of residual, which is great!  She absolutely hates the CPAP though!  Yesterday, she must of taken it off at least a dozen times and she managed to wiggle out of whatever position the nurses try and place her in.  It is always interesting when I call the night nurse to check on the babies before I go to sleep.  Last night when I called, we had a nurse who had never had the twins before.  The very first thing she said to me was, "Your daughter...she is such a fireball!", and then went on for about 5 minutes about how she was so active and refused to keep her CPAP on.  Yep...that's my girl!  She then proceeded to tell me what a "good boy" Cooper was and how sweet he was being.  All I could do was agree and laugh!  

We have our new team for the month and though we have a new resident and fellow, our old attending and friend Dr. Mandy is back, and we are excited to have him!  He is not only a great doctor, but such a sweet man and I believe he is genuinely invested in our babies.  He especially loves twins because he has twins of his own!  His main goals for Cooper this month are to eventually come off of the nasal cannula, and progress on bottle feeds.  For Kinley, we want her to grow, grow, grow!  If she grows enough, we are hoping they will take her off of CPAP soon and start her on a nasal cannula as well.  She can breathe well without it, but Dr. Mandy does not want her burning too many calories trying to breathe without much support, so I have a "talk" with Kinley everyday about how she needs to be still and quiet so she can save her energy and put on some weight!

Bianca and Cooper

A little side note, for those of you that read about our August resident (the Grey's Anatomy episode!)...she ended up doing awesome!  We came to be on a first name basis with Bianca and we ended up loving her!  She learned so much and also became invested in the twins and truly cared about their progress.  She is coming back a few times this month to cover when needed, so we hope we will see her again soon!

We feel so good about the status of our sweet babies right now, but ask for continued prayers that they will continue going and growing in the right direction.  Thank you so, so much!
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