September 29, 2010

These are some pics from the beginning of the month but they sure are cute....

September 27, 2010

On the September 22, 2010 posting, the editor incorrectly stated that Tenley was aspirating at the Dr. appointment. She was wretching, not aspirating, and there is apparently a pretty big difference between those two words. To anyone in the medical field out there, I apologize for any confusion this may have caused.
Mommy and Daddy have since discovered that if you leave Tenley perfectly still for roughly 20 minutes after her feeds, she does not wretch.

Tenley with her boppy
Twins with Bear on 8 month birthday

September 24, 2010

Look very, very closely at Tenley's fingers in this picture. She apparently did not appreciate having her picture taken at that exact moment....maybe it was the bear?
Tenley enjoying time with MoMo

September 22, 2010

Mommy and Pop Pop were off to the GI/Nissen surgery expert yesterday. They got x-ray'd to see if the Nissen's were too tight, too loose, or just right. Both babies were juuuust right. Will wasn't too happy about not getting his morning feed, so he was already cranky. Then they tried to get some dye-stuff down to his esophagus via bottle and he was not having that, so they had to eventually stick a tube down to his esophagus.

The results for Will was that he has good swallowing and good stomach reactions...he just completely forgot how to suck. If he can learn how to suck, then he'd be set for bottle feeds!

Tenley didn't mind her bottle of dye-stuff as much so she didn't need the tube down to her esophagus. While she was eating, she started wretching pretty badly. The Dr. looked internally at her stomach and saw no issues. Although Tenley's stomach, sucking, and swallowing skills are a-OK, it appears she may be afraid of being full. As soon as the Dr. distracted her with a toy, she stopped wretching. Mom and Dad are going to work on distracting her towards the end of her feeds from now on to see if maybe she can get over this "fear".

CAUTION: Twins at Play

September 21, 2010

Sweet T
Big Guy Will
Twins n Mommy

September 20, 2010

If you've lost track...the babies were 8 months old 3 days ago. Wow...how time flies!

The little situation on Sunday did not have a positive outcome. Today, Mommy just held Tenley up over some towels and the container so when it was her normal #2 time she just had to catch it in the container. Success!! Good job sis!!

Tomorrow the babies go to their GI doctor and Thursday they go to a G-Tube specialist to see if maybe they can figure out how to ween the kids off the G-Tube feedings and onto bottles.

Both babies gained the minimum amount of weight this week. Tenley weighing in at 11lbs 11 ozs and Will weighing in at 13 lbs 12 ozs.

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Will, all smiles

September 18, 2010

Tenley is still having issues with asparating after/during feedings and also has diarrhea issues. Mom and Dad are trying to collect stool samples for the Doctor to run some tests however when the #1 and #2 happen simultaneously, its proving difficult just obtaining the stool. Sunday Daddy gets to experiment with bags of some kind...we'll see how that goes. Good luck Bill!!!

September 16, 2010

September 14, 2010

Twins holding hands
Tenley says "hi!"
Poppop, you're silly

September 12, 2010

Will finally got his EEG results back. When compared to his last EEG, he showed signs of improvement and can now have his Phenobarbotol (medicine for seizures) lowered until, hopefully in five weeks, he can officially be without. This makes mommy very happy.

Bath time 'aint so bad
I'm a cutie pie
Climb on daddy time!

September 9, 2010

Look...hair!

September 6, 2010

"Hi Mr Frog...I'm Will"
Just hanging out
Momo, that's my toy

September 3, 2010

Somebody is sleeping here...just doesn't appear to be Tenley
Daddy Time!

September 2, 2010

Today, at 9am, the Petranka NC house is closing (knock on wood) so I'm really not focused at this exact minute. Instead of working, I will post some cute baby pics...

Will - focusing on playtime
Sweet T smiles

September 1, 2010

I'm back in business...I got lots of pics recently so let the posting continue...

Sweet T
Off to the Doctor