January 27, 2010

Will-i-am is rockin and rollin today. His weight is slightly up from yesterday and has been off the ventilator entirely since last night! I guess the little guy just wanted to come off the pain meds. He spent 3 hours today sleeping like a log on his belly...his newfound favorite sleeping position since being off the oscillator. Mommy got to inject his feeding today and also spent quite sometime with her pinky being squeezed by his little hand...awwwwwww. He had his arterial line removed today (what that is I dont entirely know) but it was some kind of line being removed from his belly button. Anything being removed from these babies is good enough news for me to post even if I haven't the slightest idea what I'm talking about. Today was also the first time both Mom and Dad heard one of their babies crying. For now, his cry sounds remarkably like that of a newborn kitten but I'm sure in time it will become more manly ;)

Tenley is an infamous little wiggle worm. She got her diaper changed by Daddy today and has increased her food intake to 2.5 CCs every 3 hrs and eats it all! She had a bit of an incident today...she took out her breathing tube which caused a bit of an uproar in her room. We think she may have done this on purpose though because they reincubated in a different angle (facing her left instead of right) and ever since she has been breathing much better and even had her levels lowered for the first time in a few days. The nurses are typically faced with a fussy Tenley when changing her diaper or moving her around and for the last few days they did not get such a fight. They thought she was coming down with something so they tested her for several viruses. Turns out she just wanted another blood transfusion because she's been her regular fussy self ever since.