How sweet it is

Sammy got his first 'real' food today!  Prune juice! He is currently on 2 different iron supplements which is leaving him very constipated.  So they take 5 ml of plain old prune juice and put it in a dropper in his mouth and let it do its thing.  They gave it to him at his 1pm feeding and it worked just in time for Daddy's diaper change at 5pm (lucky Mommy!)  It wasn't our first blowout but it was definitely the first time we thought our child smelled like a barn animal.  Good Lord.


In other news, we made the jump to newborn clothes!   The babies are all between 4lbs 9oz and 4lbs 15oz and preemie clothes were getting too tight!  That's amazing! We are so thankful to see their little bodies filling out.  We are also so thankful for all the hand me downs we have, between those and the outfits we received at the shower the trips are well dressed. So thank you again everyone.  I paid it forward yesterday with some of the boy outfits to a preemie in the NICU who is just starting to wear clothes.  And I packed up the rest of the preemie clothes in a box in hopes of doing the same down the road to a family in need.


In other great news, this high flo stage of oxygen is moving quickly.  It goes from 4 liters an hour, down to 3,2,1 and then they'll be cannula free, breathing on their own with clean faces!  All the babies started in 4, and were weaned to 3 over the weekend.  And today Danny and Elsie were weaned to 2 (Sammy has to wait till tomorrow because they only do one change a day to babies and Sammy got the juice today).  This is awesome because high flo 2 is when they are allowed to start breastfeeding.  I've managed to pump enough to exclusively feed them breast milk the last 10.5 weeks and look forward to the new challenge of trying to breast feed 3 babies (thank goodness I have years of experience being an overachiever).


Here are some pics of our pumpkins...
 

Elsie's first dress!

Grammy holding Danny

Sammy looking at Mommy in disbelief

Intently watching me

Sammy the thinker

Daddy with Elsie

Our new board now that we are all in the same room!

Danny sleeping on his hand

Love this outfit!  Thanks Missie!

Working on his pouty lip

Miss Elsie waiting for care time

Love Love Love this little yellow outfit

Elsie making kissy faces at Mommy