Eating, Growing, Healing!

     Gardner is still working really hard to keep milk down.  Nurses can't automatically up her feeds daily (as they typically do with most of the babies). They have to have doctors orders each day. However, the doctors are giving permission to advance her feeds (even though she spits up a good bit), but they are just increasing the length of time that the milk goes through the feeding tube. So it is good that they are doing this because she is now up to 14 ccs every three hours, yet the milk is programmed to go through tube over the course of a whole hour.

     Julianna is also working hard to tolerate her food. She takes a whopping 34 ccs! (also every three hours) She is keeping it down with little spit ups but has significant re-flux, like her sister. She started out a whole pound over Gardner, so remains our "chunky" baby. (Never thought i'd say that about a three pound baby!!)

      Good news is that both girls are above their birth weight! Julianna is 1710 kg and Gardner is 1180.. Not sure what that is in pounds but I think it's around  2.6 for Gardner and 3.7  for Julianna. With that said, I do believe that they are both out of the danger zone and going to start climbing the charts in weight!  (Gardner a little bit slower than her sister but that was to be expected).

Gardner's BIG NEWS: She gets her Picc Line out tomorrow!!! 

Julianna's BIG NEWS: She is maintaining her body temperature all by herself. If she can make it through the night with consistent good temperature reads, she will be in an OPEN CRIB tomorrow!

I am so so proud of my girls, they work so hard every single day and already have accomplished so much in their short little 2 1/2 weeks of life... These LITTLE girls can do BIG things. But we are also certain that they could not have come this far without your prayers, an amazing NICU staff, and a God with a big plan for the greater good of us all.

SWEET...

DREAMS.

We love you,
The Fields