A Big Day at the NICU!!

Well today was quite fun at the NICU. First and foremost, Lucas and Liliana were taken out of their isolettes and transported to their new crib where they will be co-sleeping (very popular with twins)

Then, the nurses decided it was time for a photo op and proceeded to pose us in a variety of ways. Just a note, it is total coincidence that Felix is in blue and I in pink...just worked out that way.

Many people have been asking about the tubing that is in their nose. It is a removable tube that they can feed through if they get too tired. At this point, they are increasing their feeds quite a bit, but since they are still so tiny, they often get tired. It is not until another week usually that babies get the whole sucking, swallowing, breathing reflex down. To do all three simultaneously is difficult for preemies. So they start off each feeding from the bottle and at the end they might fall asleep, or be awake and just to be too tired to work at feeding from the bottle. Then the remaining food is put into a syringe like tube and the milk just goes right down into their stomach. This way they can keep putting on weight while they catch up with this whole feeding thing. Sometimes they don't use it, but they usually do at least once a day (they feed eight times a day)

And finally, we got a video camera. We are still figuring it out, but we thought we would try to post a video. We haven't figured out the whole editing part yet, so there is a lot of background noise, but we thought it might be fun to see them in action!