Yesterday was not a bad day, but it was a little rougher. Brooke and Claire are still doing okay, but they’ve been having some digestion issues and spitting up more than the doc and nurses would like. They’re on meds (“reglen”, I think) for it and are being closely watched for signs of infection like any green coloration to the spit up. There haven’t been any such signs (unless anything changed overnight), but that would be cause for concern. If they don’t resolve the spitting up issue soon, it could delay the transfer to the closer hospital. That would be a minor disappointment, but we want them wherever they need to be to get the best care possible. Read the rest of this entry »

It has been a very exciting and eventful week and I have a lot I want to write and share about it, but as usual, life seems to happen faster than I can write about it. Our precious twin daughters were born on last Tuesday, April 7. We expected them to be born early because twins usually are, but at 31 weeks, 4 days, they came even earlier than we expected. The babies are in the NICU but doing very well, and Mommy Kate is still in the hospital recovering from her c-section but also doing well and expecting to get discharged tomorrow (Saturday). There’s much I’d like to share and make sure I get down before memory fades, but in the interest of a writing goal I hope to manage in the next hour or two, I’m not going to even try to catch up and will just tell our birth story Read the rest of this entry »