Milk

Blake and Jared are both continuing to improve. Jared is on the nasal cannula and Blake is breathing on his own completely. Blake has some spurts where he tends to breathe really fast, but so far it's nothing to worry about. The twins are moving on to become "feeders and growers" say the nurses. We are ecstatic about that.

Jen will start offering the boob, oops I mean recreational breast feeding tomorrow. She has to pump first and then offer the breast as to not douse them with the fire hose of milk she's producing. We have an entire freezer full of frozen milk for these little guys. If you have extra freezer space and live in Mountain View let us know!

Right now, the nurses feed Blake 8ml every 3 hours and Jared 6ml every 3 hours through a gavage (nasal tube). They are increasing the feeds by 2ml every 12 hours. Afterwards they draw some of the milk back up the tube to check if there are any digestion problems. So far so good.

Yesterday my mom, brother and dad visited the twins (my dad sat outside cuz he has a cough). Today Jen's mom visited. I took Blake's temperature, changed his diaper and held him during my lunch hour (the hospital is 7 minutes away from work). Blake was alert and awake for the first 15 minutes, looking at me and checking stuff out - I'm sure he just sees fuzzy shapes for right now (they're only 34 weeks tomorrow). Every time there was a loud noise he would jump and make the cutest grimace. The nurse asked me to kiss his head before he went back in the crib. Jared's been really fussy lately when we visit. The nurses flip him in all sorts of positions to make him happy and we use our hands to sort of swaddle and comfort him. Today he was sleeping so angelically I didn't want to disturb him.