6 Weeks Old

The last couple of days have been good. Both boys are doing great and continuing to grow.

We are still trying to get the boys to nurse, but the lactation specialist said it will just come in time. She said with them being preemies it will take them a little longer to latch on and to be happy with the progress they have made so far. So we will continue to give it our best efforts to get them to be successful with nursing. As for right now they are still on the feeding tube and have now increased to a bottle every other feeding. So that is 4 bottles a day. The next step is that they will get the feeding tube taken out and will try to do bottles at every feeding. Right now they are taking their bottles between 20-30 minutes. They only allow for 30 minutes to try to get the bottle down because they don't want them burning excess calories. They are really doing good with this and we hope that it continues so we can bring them home. Westyn is taking 48 ml of breast milk and Wesley is taking 47 ml. They are also still supplementing twice a day with formula (so 2 out of the 4 bottles) and the other milk they get are strictly breast milk. They want them on the formula because it provides them the needed nutrients that my body doesn't produce that they need being preemies.

Suzanne asked me on Sunday to bring the boys their mobiles if I had one and wanted too so that they would have something to look at since they are a little more alert doing the day now. I only have one right now and am working on getting the other one picked up. We put one in Westyn's room today and Cindi said that he enjoyed it today. She said she tried out the different  music to see how he liked it and he was just a looking at it.

Westyn did have a brief episode today with his heart rate dropping so they have hooked back up the arm monitor to keep track of his oxygen levels in his blood. Cindi said after his episode this morning her never had another one that was chartable and was stating at around 99 to 100 mostly all day. She said they will just monitor it for the next couple of days to make sure all is well. She said if he has another chartable episode (meaning it lasts more then 20 seconds) then they will do some blood work to make sure he isn't getting an infections. She said sometimes with preemies this can be their way of saying that they are getting sick. We are hoping this isn't the case and that he just had a brief episode today and will go back to doing good with no episode. So pray pray pray this doesn't happen again!

I am still slowly trying to think of everything possible that I still might need  to get before they come home. I picked up a huge bottle of hand sanitizer today and  so we are set for visitors now!! So beware if you come to visit... you will be asked to sanitize.. :)   

Stats:
Westyn - 5lbs 10oz
Wesley - 5lbs 5.5oz
Westyn - 18.3 inches long (as of August 19)
Wesley - 18.2 inches long (as of August 19)

I think that pretty much sums it up on how they are doing. We continue to pray that they will keep doing good and be able to come home soon!!