Nine days old

Kate and Maya are now nine days old and are getting bigger and stronger. As of last night, Maya weighed 4 lb 14 oz (almost 5 lbs!) and little Kate is back to her birth weight of 4 lb 6 oz.

This afternoon, they switched to regular newborn bottle nipples (they were using premie nipples) because they were taking their bottles so well. The newborn nipples take more strength to suck and they ran out of energy before finishing their whole bottles, so had to take half through their nasal feeding tubes. However, I'm sure they'll catch on quickly.

Kate still has occasional episodes of "periodic breathing" where she stops breathing for a few seconds and her oxygen saturation drops temporarily. I guess this is a common occurence with premature babies and she should stop doing this as she gets bigger. She does already seems to be getting these episodes less frequently.

We're still not sure when we we'll be going home. If they continue on the track they're on, I'm guessing they could be home in two weeks. No one at the hospital will tell us their opinion except to say that we should expect to take them home by their due date, which would be December 3rd. We'll just have to wait and see.

Here are a few pictures from yesterday.