NICU day 6

Jesse is now big enough to wear clothes.  He actually fills up this Preemie sleeper pretty well.  It's so cute to see him in the clothes...  Jesse is up to eating 16ml of milk every 2 hours.  He's still on the c-pap, but he has had very few apnea episodes (maybe one a day), so hopefully he'll be breathing completely on his own soon.  What he has helping him now is very minimal.  There is no oxygen hooked up to it.  It just pushes the room air in his lungs once a minute or so for him.

Parker is doing really well too.  He has been breathing completely on his own for the last 4 days.  Today he had his umbilical IV line removed.  This means that he is just connected to a monitor & feeding tube.  Hopefully the will start trying to feed him with a bottle soon.  He's up to 18ml of milk every 2 hours.  His back to gaining weight after a couple of days of loosing weight.  I hope that he will be wearing clothes soon too.

I have to admit the NICU is a bit stressful.  It is a very distracting place.  There is a constant beeping, binging, lights flashing and tiny babies crying...  I have to admit it's easier when I am able to hold one of them...My friends and family have been great about helping me get to Rockford to visit them.

I plan to take some more pictures tomorrow.