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Back To Work

Well, I’m back to work for now. We figured that me using up my paid leave while they’re still in NICU didn’t make a lot of sense.

So, now Sam is going in at our regular time (8 AM) and is staying until 1 PM. I then take my lunch from 12-1PM and go over there for some quick snuggles. To facilitate that and make the best use of my time, I’m also working out of my office (I had been working from home since about mid-March). This puts me within a few blocks of the hospital. If I walk into the common area of my office, I can see the hospital.

I’m not too concerned about doing this because I already work in near-isolation here. I have my own office with a door and the building is pretty empty these days. There are a few people wandering around, but we all pretty much keep our distance.

We are still keeping our evening visits as-is (8-10 PM). Those work out great.

Feeding Progress

Elizabeth has been moved from 9 mL to 20 mL of her new formula as we continue to monitor her. She’s doing great so far!

Aspen has really shown an interest in breast feeding. She’ll do some rooting and shows very strong signs of wanting to feed. We’re letting her get some practice when Sam’s there, but she still doesn’t have the whole motion down. Sam told me that she had an incident this morning where she hadn’t swallowed and was not breathing properly. These are the types of things that we’ll have to continue to work on. Again, this is one of the bigger differences between our preemie girls and full-term babies.

Thanks

I do really get a lot of pleasure out of the positive responses that we’ve gotten by having this blog available. I do it as record keeping for us, but knowing that there are people that are keeping up with them and finding them valuable is very motivating.

We’d also like to thank all of those that have sent us gifts, made us food, or helped with taking care of Wavy. Without their help this all would be much more stressful and more work. Thank You!

Random Pictures

Love their open mouths while sleeping! Very much like their daddy.

Here you can see Elizabeth’s larger feeding tube. I’m not really sure why it is so large and therefore down her mouth, but it certainly looks annoying. But she’s getting feeds again!

Hope those pictures can hold you all over until you can see them in person!