4 Days Old - Only Good News to Share!

Today is dedicated to our little boy Marcus who has graduated to clothes! He is at a good weight and appears to maintains his body temperature just fine. The nurses decided his bed warmer could be turned off and he could wear clothes and be swaddled to say warm. Yay!


Now we just need to get Marcus to reliably eat from a bottle rather than relying on his feeding tube. He has been the laziest with the suck, swallow, breathe benchmark. Meanwhile, little Mia eats her bottle like a champ. She can usually finish her entire bottle without any need for the feeding tube. Josie is also easily picking up on bottle feeding.

Another exciting development...the responsibility of the trios plan of care is getting transfered to a nurse practitioner rather than an attending doctor. This is great news because only babies who are thriving in the NICU without any apparent problems are transfered to nurse practitioners! Finally, there is a good chance IV's will be removed in the next couple days! This means the only tubes and wires will be basic monitoring and their feeding tube. The IV's are the most intrusive so we cannot wait to get those taken out!

People have been asking about my favorite topic, my lovely weight gain and loss. I gained a whopping 65 pounds by the end of the pregnancy. Today at 4 days post-op, I have lost 30 pounds. This is all water, baby, placenta, etc. ..pretty amazing! I'm starting to see my old face emerge from the marshmallow. My feet on the other hand look similiar to Shrek's. Lovely.