10 Weeks Old!

Monday, August 26

Today was the first day of school in the Vegas area. The NICU doctors had predicted Kinley would be home by now, so I scheduled my Family Medical Leave time to begin today. It feels like I'm playing hooky! I told the girls that SOMEBODY needs to come home so that I can say I'm using my time-off wisely.

 Kinley Grace

Devyn Marie

 

Devyn has been doing great off of her oxygen! Her feedings are the only challenge keeping her in the NICU. She is still having a hard time controlling her sucking, swallowing, and breathing. Every now and then she shocks us by finishing an entire bottle herself, but most of the time her milk is fed through the feeding tube. Devyn made it to 7 pounds tonight! I was looking at her today and decided I don't think these two gals would have fit inside my belly at this point in the pregnancy. They are still over a week away from their due date!

 The nightly weigh-in. Kinley (above) Devyn (below)

Kinley and I met with the speech therapist today to assess her progress on the feedings. The rice cereal seems to help a little, but every now and then she still chokes. The doctor decided to try a reflux  medication to see if that works. Tracy, the therapist, observed Devyn nursing today and was blown away by how good she is! She went hunting in her office, and came back with a bottle that we are going to try tomorrow. The bottle makes it much harder to get the milk out than a normal bottle, similar to nursing. We'll see how it goes tomorrow.

 Why Devyn...what big eyes you have!!!

 

Snuggling with Devyn