eMotion Pictures (Nice Double Entendre)

I am posting videos above of the boys shortly after birth.

Randi and the boys are doing well. Randi is up and around, and she is feeling exponentially better today over yesterday. She is eating solids and trying to get some nourishment to the babies. More on that later. I want to stress again our gratitude to everyone out there for the phone calls, emails, and comments on this blog. Also, I wanted to let you all know that I am printing off copies of the posts I am writing while she is admitted and their comments for her to read in the hospital, since we still have no internet and spotty cell phone reception. She enjoys the encouragement.

They started feeding both babies last night, and so far, they have taken the food well via feeding tube. We are trying to give them as much natural food as possible but are having intermittent results. She is trying her best not to get discouraged here at the beginning but push on through. They have moved Parks out of the warming drawer and into a regular crib because he is regulating his body temperature so well. He is taking the feeds and is looking great. Wyatt is still in the isolette only because of his weight and lack of body fat stores. Both boys are most likely getting put under the bili lights for neonatal jaundice. This is common in premature babies and usually lasts at the most 14 days. It is presumably a consequence of metabolic and physiological adjustments after birth.

We are getting to see them both several times a day and hold them twice a day. Randi held Wyatt for the first time last night. She has to hold him skin to skin to her chest, in what's called "kangaroo care," since he loses body heat so fast. We are also hoping that it will help him want the breast and aid Randi in pumping. Randi most likely going to be discharged tomorrow. I'm sure she will be happy to go home and get rested better in preparation for the boys coming home, although it has been nice to just walk down the hall to see them. We are so thankful for the outcomes thus far. For as many REAL concerns as we had, it only shows that God it good.