Baby Steps

Big Sister Payton - She has been working hard the past week. She is now out of her incubator and in a crib. Her feedings have been changed from a continuous amount to a bolus feeding. Every three hours she would get fed. They started by stringing her feeding over 2.5 hours, then kept decreasing by 30 minutes until she was getting fed over 30 minutes, once every 3 hours. Now she's doing some bottle feedings. It's a lot of work for such a little girl to try to remember to breath and suck and swallow. During last weeks Thursday night - Friday morning shift, they admitted 7 new babies to the NICU. They needed room so they moved Payton to the satellite NICU. It's down the hall from the other and for babies that need a little less direct care. She is currently sharing a room with a set of twins. She's such a big girl now. :)

Little Brother Parker - He is holding his own. He still has his strider a little from when he was intubated. But it's much better. Mostly, you can only hear it when he gets really mad. We're spending a lot of time sitting in the chair in his room looking around and talking about snow and his room when he gets home and the new car seat we bought for him. He's still on his continuous feedings. They want to make sure he has a little more time to heal from the strider before starting because any reflux could aggravate it. He's on a 2 week decreasing round of steroids to see if that helps. They had an ENT doctor come check him out last week to see if they need to do a scope on it. Dr. Lusk decided that they would wait until this round of steroids and see what happens. At that time they may decide to do a scope.

So we keep moving forward. And we keep having more and more time to snuggle with the cutest, more adorable babies on the planet (and I'm not biased). :)