Twins - Day 26

Good Monday morning, everyone!

Well, it's hard to believe that the twins will be 1 month old at the end of the week!  Time has certainly flown by!  Brooklyn weighed 5 lbs 2 oz and Brienna weighed 4 lbs 11 oz yesterday.  So, both girls are growing very well.

Bottling is going pretty well for both girls.  Yesterday, Brooklyn was receiving 35cc 4x per day.  Her total volume is 43 cc, so she's not quite receiving her full volume yet.  Also, since they receive 8 feedings in a day, she is taking half of her feedings by bottle and the other times she is fed through her feeding tube.  Brienna is now receiving her full volume (40cc) by bottle and is being bottled 6x per day.  So, as far as feedings go, Brienna is a couple days ahead of Brooklyn.  But, both girls are doing well at their respective levels and are getting very good scores for the most part.

This weekend, for the first time, we were given a glimpse into when we could expect the girls to come home, and if everything goes well, we're hoping to have them home in about 2 weeks!!  They have scheduled a couple different tests for the end of this week.  They will receive vision tests and head ultrasounds, which is standard procedure for premies.  The head ultrasound is to check for bleeding on the brain.  They had one ultrasound shortly after birth and everything looked good, so this ultrasound is basically to make sure that nothing else has developed.  They will also have an apnea test, since they still struggle with "spells" from time to time.  This test will give the doctors a more detailed explanation of why they are having the spells. 

Also, early last week, we were approached by the case manager and she told us that they are going to be putting together a TV commercial for Sanford Children's hospital and they would like us to be in the commercial!  So, we agreed to do that and the recording took place on Friday afternoon!  It was a fun experience and something that will be fun to show the girls when they're older.  The film crew showed up at 1 pm and proceded to interview us for just over an hour.  They also interviewed a nurse for 30 minutes, and then spent about an hour recording us and the nurses taking care of the girls.  So, it took about 3 hours total, which was more than we expected for a 30-60 second commercial! 

They will interview one of the doctors and do the editing in the coming weeks and then we will be able to view it before it goes on TV.  We'll also be given a copy that we'll try to put on this site for those of you that will not be able to see it on SD TV channels. 

We've been told that it's hard to judge the relative size of the girls in the pictures that we've put on the site so far, so we've been working on taking pictures that show their size better.  We'll work on getting a picture or two posted later tonight.

Have a good day!