Sanity Check

So according to Charlotte's nurse last night, she now weighs 2 kilos, impressively surpassing both her siblings in an almost 900 gram jump in just one day. Obviously, said nurse didn't bother to sanity check her results since one look at Charlotte would expose the absurdity of claiming she was almost 4-1/2 lbs. Oh well. 

Audrey is believably up to 2lbs 11oz, and Thomas is at 3lbs 6oz. The last trustworthy weight for Charlotte was 2lbs 9oz, so while she might not be the leader in size, she's definitely catching up to her sister.  

In other comical nurse news, when a baby next to Charlotte was having an X-ray a couple of days ago, everyone ran away to the next room and instructed us to do the same, distancing ourselves from the radiation. My question was "what about the babies?!" No one really answered me at the time. Reassuring. Then the nurse brought it up later after chatting with her superior and said "it's not harmful, but we just step back because we are of child bearing age." What?! Now I feel better. 

Not much else has changed with the kiddos. They still have open PDAs and regular desat episodes (mostly self-limiting) and are just being closely watched by the attending physician in order to determine the best course of action. I've been holding almost everyday (we take 1 day off per week), and Will has been as well whenever he's able to be there. The occupational therapy woman keeps telling me that they are doing so well and that it has a lot to do with us holding them regularly. True or not, I'm grateful that we're able to do so. She has also been showing us other "positive touch" exercises that we can be doing with them when we can't hold (since there's not enough time to hold all of them each day). We're starting to try to engage their suck reflexes with pacifiers too. In a few weeks, they might start to try bottle feeding. And I think Thomas will probably move to a crib at some point in the next couple of weeks. May should be a big month. 

I've been a bit lazy lately on this blog, but in part, there just haven't been major updates to report. During stretches like this, I might not post everyday, so just assume that no news is good news ;-) 

Since all of your prayers are clearly powerful and effective, I also wanted to ask for prayers for these babies' Nonnie (my mom) as she has heart surgery in the morning to remove a benign tumor from her left ventricle. She'll be up and at 'em at 3:30am to get all washed (with antibacterial soap to prevent infection) and ready for the procedure, and we're guessing everything will be complete by midday. We're praying for a successful surgery without complications and a speedy and full recovery. She may or may not be looking forward to seeing some grandkids (in TN and CT) once she's fit to travel again :)