What a Weekend

We had quite a busy weekend. We spent the entire day yesterday cleaning our house and only finished the first floor and garage! My parents came over and helped us. We also had re-organize our family room to make room for the baby stuff. Last night the four of us attended an infant CPR class.

Saturday we toured the TIC (transitional infant care) home in Pittsburgh. The doctors said we are candidates for this and wanted us to check it out. It's brand new and is definitely very nice. They have 2 huge family living areas which include a kitchen, family room, bathroom with shower and bedrooms. You can hang out with your kids in the family room as you prepare dinner or watch tv. They would be on home monitors there so that we could all move more freely. What's holding is back is that we really are comfortable and Magee and we wake up every day hoping that in four days our girls will be home. We don't want to transport them if they will only be there for a day or two. The advantages to the home are that it's more "homey". No florescent lights, it's quieter, the schedule is a little loser, the patient ratio to nurse ratio is better and babies tend to do better there. They think it may help the girls lose that last bit of o2. We're still debating...

Onto the girls... they had a great weekend. No B's during feedings. Emma's feeding tube is out and she is doing great with her feedings. She's just a little slower than Mady, but honestly, Mady chugs her bottles a little too fast! When we left last night, Madelyn's O2 level was at 20.4%, which is room air. If she keeps that up again today, they'll remove her canula again to see how she does. Emma got down to 24% last night! Mady now seems to be "playing" a little after her feedings, especially with daddy. Emma is our little cuddler and loves to snuggle with me after her bottles.

After talking with one of the nurses at the TIC, we have decided NOT to co-bed the girls at night. The risk of SIDS is higher. During the day, when we are better able to keep an eye on them, we will let them sleep together. This changes our plans for the first few months, so we need to buy 2 bassinets for them! Thank you to my friends at work, who got us a gift certificate for BRU. We will be using that for this purchase.