Game On

Happy New Year everyone!

Sammy had his follow up eye appointment this morning and the doctor said (and I quote) "his eyes look great".  This means the Avastin injections did their job to make the angry, engorged vessels regress.  We still don't know what the overall outcome of his eyesight will be, but at least now he has a clean slate so the good vessels can grow and improve eye sight. The more good vessel growth, the better his vision will be.

In other awesome news, Elsie had her first 'no spell' day. In rounds they report how many spells (heart rates drop, oxygen dsat below 90% or both) each baby has had in the last 24 hours.  When the doctor reported zero there was a lot of smiling and Woo hoo - ing from the team,  Miguel and I included :)  She is getting closer to coming home,  her next big hurdle is feeding.  Although she is nursing and taking a bottle, she still gets tired and requires the remainder of some feeds be pumped through the tube in her nose.  She currently takes about 60% by mouth,  40% by tube, which has more than doubled in a week.  So once she takes almost all by mouth they will put her on a spell watch. After 5 days of no spells she goes home! My guess is two weeks. 

Here are some pics:

Elsie sneaking a smile

Sleeping on Mommy

Sleeping all sprawled out

Sammy the gangsta

love the jeans! 

 Sammy cuddling with Grammie

Sammy sleeping

Danny

Here is a video of Danny. He has already nursed for 40 minutes, taken a bottle with more milk and is being burped by Daddy.  He appears so famished in this video that I nursed him again for 30 more minutes after we took this. This kid is going to eat us out of house and home!  Also, Miguel would like me to point out that he is not choking Danny, that this method is how we were taught to protect their airway as they burp to avoid reflux :)