Sorry for the lack of blog entries, but it’s been a hectic few days and we’ve been short on sleep. So, the last couple of times that I might have worked on blog entries, I napped.
Friday was such a hectic day. We were planning on going home after the mid-afternoon feedings, so we shifted our schedule earlier to get in three visits with the boys. So, we went for the 9:30 AM feedings and were shocked when Dexter drank 41 ml of formula and only had to take 14 ml of formula by NG. This is the most that he’s drunk in any one meal. We were not too hopeful for Spencer as he had not drunk anything either of the feedings in the morning. But, he surprised us by drinking 11 ml. It’s not much, but since he’s a couple of days behind Dexter and doing what his brother was doing then, drinking anything is an accomplishment.
After an early lunch, Dexter continued to improve his consistency by drinking 30 ml of formula. This was the first time that he had had two back-to-back feedings over 30 ml. We also heard from the doctors that they expected Dexter to be out of the incubator and into a normal crib very soon since he was doing better and better with his temperature. That would be one step closer to being discharged from the hospital. Spencer wasn’t very awake and it wasn’t surprising that he didn’t really make any progress. He drank about 6 ml, but ver y slowly. However, he was getting slightly better at regulating his body temperature. They had lowered his incubator temp to 32.5 C. Small steps, but at least steps in the right direction.
After the 3:30/4:30 feeding, we quickly bundled up out things and headed on the road again to get home. We finally got on the road about 6:00 and with one stop for dinner, we managed to get home at 9:00 PM. We spent about half of the trip discussing the various things that we were going to need to get done at home. We wrote up a check-list that ended up being over 30 tasks that we needed to do. We spent the first 20-30 minutes at home doing a tour and check of the house. We hadn’t been home in nearly two weeks and had heard of major storms and flooding in the area. But, no signs of any flooding, leaks or issues. We started working on the chores and managed to get about 2/3 of them done by around 2:00 AM.
It was really, really nice to be home and sleep in our own beds, but I missed the boys already and we had only been away from them for about 8 hours. I resisted the urge to call the hospital and check up on how the boys were doing (although when we got back on Saturday, the nurse on duty said that I should have just called). J
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