Coming Home Soon?

"You might want to bring your car seat Monday," our nurse advised at tonight's visit. She seemed to think that Keira and Taerik would be coming home early this week. We will see....

We were excited to find that Taerik was moved to an open crib today. He is maintaining his body temperature like a champ and eating most of his bottles. Apparently, he can go home as soon as he will take ALL of his feedings from a bottle for a 24 hour period. Rob and I have had no problems getting him to drink all his bottle, but he hasn't cooperated quite so well for the nurses.

Keira is doing awesome at finishing all her bottles! She even got her feeding tube removed today. Her isolette is all the way down to 27 degrees Celsius, which means that sometime tonight she will also be moved to an open crib. If Keira can maintain her body temperature for 24 hours in this new environment, she will likely be coming home.

Drake is also doing very well, however he still lags a little behind his brother and sister. He is off the heart medications, as it seems that his duct has closed up sufficiently. His breathing is significantly improved and he has been gaining weight. In fact, he has gained the most so far and is almost caught up in size to the rest of the trio. Drake is now feeding from a bottle again, but is only taking about 15 ml at a time. He needs to take around 35-40 ml. He also needs to maintain his body temperature. Currently, his isolette is heated to about 29 degrees Celsius. Please pray that he would be able to come home shortly after the others. It is difficult to think about them not being together.

We are reminded often how well our babies are doing. My original delivery date was scheduled for May 1 (34 weeks). This means that some of them could potentially come home before they were even slated to be born. Several nurses have commented how amazed they are at the progress. We attribute this all to prayer! Thank you all so much for continuing to bring our family before the Lord!