No big news today. The girls are still doing well, although each have had a few episodes. As Dr. Breed said, they aren't quite ready to go home yet, but we're getting there. Each lost an ounce overnight, so technically Abby isn't five pounds anymore, but she'll probably be back up tomorrow. The milestone has still been passed. ;)
One funny thing - apparently there have been several times (once yesterday and once today) when Abby has woken up early and decided she is HUNGRY, so started fussing. Both times the nurses went ahead and fed her, since Hazel was still sleeping. I haven't been there when this has happened, so I haven't seen it, but it is so hard to think it is laid back little Abby doing the crying and hand waving (well, the latter I can believe).
Both girls' behinds look better. The doctor and nurses think part of the diaper rash was due to the fortifier they used, so now that the girls have switched to the formula supplement that'll probably help too. So we're back to Boudreaux's Butt Paste (again) from Ilex plus petroleum jelly, which is also nice because BBP is easier to apply.
I was there for the 5:30 and 8:30 assessments (yup, another Saturday evening in the NICU); I tried to breast feed Hazel at 5:30, and thought she was doing okay, but after about 30 minutes, when I put her up, she still looked hungry, and still ended up downing a 40 ml bottle from the nurse. So maybe she was licking more than sucking? And then Abby was NOT interested at all at 6:00 - she just sat there and chilled, so the nurse made a bottle for her too (and let me stay a bit past 6:30 to feed most of it to her). By the time I walked in at 8:20, Rachel (the night nurse) was already halfway through a bottle with Hazel. And, since I didn't want to tire her out too much, I fed Abby via bottle at 9:00. It took awhile - the first 20 ml went down pretty quick, but then we had to work for 20-30 minutes on the last 20.
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