Update

Thanks again to everyone for all of your well wishes and congratulatory messages!  The support I've encountered since starting my blog has been so awesome.  I can't imagine getting through everything without you guys!

The twins are doing good.  Kendall is a little chowhound and is already taking in 1.5 oz per feeding.  Christopher's appetite has also started to increase.  They discovered he had a heart murmur on Tuesday and the cardiologist came in and evaluated him.  There is an artery between the heart and lungs that is supposed to close after birth (PDA).  His didn't close.  This was also causing some increased respirations and we think his inability to keep food down. The first course of action was to limit his IV fluids and then if that didn't work, there's an ibuprofen-like medication they could've given him.  Thankfully, limiting his fluids worked and as of yesterday, the murmur had corrected itself. 

I was released from the hospital yesterday and I'm feeling pretty good.  Still taking Percoset as I need it but everything is about what I expected.  We're visiting the twins twice/day and spending about 2 hours each visit.  It's such valuable time and we always hate to leave but I know they are in such good care and I feel completely comfortable with that.  We think they will probably be in the NICU for about 3 weeks and I'm keeping my fingers crossed they'll be home by Halloween.

I'm still trying to figure out breastfeeding - which has been difficult considering there's about 5 miles seperating me from the babies.  I'm pumping at home and taking the milk to the NICU when we visit.  My milk just started coming in yesterday so I'm not generating a huge volume yet.  It took 3 pumps just to get 1 ounce but I was so proud of myself.

"Look what I did!  These things on my chest really do work!"

Here's a few more pics of the babies.  You can really tell how small they are when you see the pacifier in Kendall's mouth. 

Christopher

Kendall