8/13 - First Nights Home

First let me say thank you to everyone who has already helped out, we have had some awesome meals and terrific help. My mom has been staying with us to help out and it has truly been a blessing I am not sure we would still be sane without her. Also, we have been eating very well and believe me we would probably have been eating PB&Js everynight had it not been for all the help we have already received.


Emma and Olivia have adapted well to life at our house, we have put them on the same eating schedule as Savannah so that when she comes home it won't be hard to get everyone eating together. They eat at 9,12,3,6,9 during the day. The night time feedings have been hit or miss, one night they only got up to eat once, but every other night it has been a few times and then someone (they take turns) won't go back to sleep. This is not much different than what we expected but we are a little nervous about adding the third one, we only have so many hands, lol. Funny story about the first night, we got them up at midnight to eat and Emma did not eat much but Olivia ate most of her bottle. Scott then put them back in their bassinets but Emma was fussy and seemed hungry so I got her up and let her eat some more, half way through the bottle I realize that it wasn't Emma I was feeding but Olivia and the little booger was eating again!


Emma and Olivia went to the doctor on Tuesday, Emma was 5lbs and Olivia 5lbs 8oz so they have both grown a good bit. We have another appointment tomorrow so hopefully they are still gaining weight. Here are a few pictures of them coming home:

Thank you for the extra prayers for our little Savannah, she is still having a few bradycardias and so today we and the neonatologist decided that we should bring her home on a monitor. We are ready to have everyone home and if she didn't come home on the monitor it could still be weeks before she was released. We are hoping to bring her home this weekend. We can't even begin to tell you how excited we will be to have our family all together and home. It is funny though, because it feels like our journey is really just beginning.

The hospital also took some newborn pictures of the girls, feel free to check out their pictures:
http://www.our365.com/NewbornPortraits/BabyDetail.aspx?birthid=fb0cbb6e-cabb-46ad-95ac-ae06be170964