Monday and another great report

I just got back from the hospital and got to hold Brock again for an hour or so. He was so excited and kept wiggling around and making happy noises :) I hope he is getting used to being held and it is not so shocking anymore. While I was there the doctor came in and chatted with me and said the boys were doing wonderful! The BEST NEWS is that Christian's blood clot is GONE! It is a miracle!! The clot was expected to take at least a month or two to go away and here in one week it is GONE! Yeah!! She was as shocked as I was to see the clot disappear. They will keep him on on heparin (blood thinner) for awhile longer to make sure that if there are small pieces left that can't be seen on the sonogram that they will disappear as well. YEAH!

Christian is eating 15cc's today (down from 18) as he had a little air in his belly which was making him spit up quite a bit. This is caused from his CPAP air tube which while he eats puts air in his belly. Hopefully they can move to the step down air tube this week which will help him digest a little better. We will see if that can happen this week. They delayed putting him in the incubator since he was spitting up so much so hopefully the decreased amount of food and the fact that they are spreading the feed over an hour will help and he can move into his incubator tonight.

Brock- Was doing great today. He is up to 27cc's of food (once ounce is 33 cc's) with some extra fortified calories added. He has no new information except he is doing really well.

Both boys will spend the next two weeks getting bigger and concentrating on eating. Starting about week 33 or 34 (we are at 31 on Wednesday) they will start trying to learn to breast feed. From what the doctor said we will start slow (once a day) since this will burn more calories than they will get from eating. Then about a week later we will start them on bottle feeding. They need to know how to bottle feed to be able to leave the NICU (they do not need to know how to breast feed). Right now both boys are eating my breast milk and they have both started on donor breast milk since I am not making enough at this point to feed both boys. Hopefully when I am able to start breastfeeding the boys, my milk will start to increase as well.

Thank you all for the thoughts and prayers. As you can tell from my news, they are working!!! Keep up the praying! They boys are doing great!!!

Jenn