The Doctor took both Bella and Trey off of their caffeine today!!!
Trey's amount of breast milk per feeding was increased to 44 cc's and Bella's amount of breast milk per feeding was increased to 40 cc's today!
Trey "graduated" to eight by mouth feedings per day ~ two breast feedings with Mommy and six bottles!
Bella "graduated" to six by mouth feedings per day ~ two breast feedings with Mommy and four bottles!
At their first nursing sessions today, Trey and Bella ate 34 and 46 cc's of breast milk from Mommy, respectively! At their second nursing sessions today, Trey and Bella ate 22 and 34 cc's of breast milk from Mommy, respectively!
Trey weighs 4 pounds 13 ounces and Bella weighs 4 pounds 4 ounces tonight!
Friday, October 7, 2005
Thursday, October 6, 2005
"Graduating"
Trey and Bella are doing well!
Trey "graduated" to six by mouth feedings per day ~ two breast feedings with Mommy and four bottles! Bella will stay at four by mouth feedings per day until she completely finishes her two daily bottles!
At their first nursing sessions today, Trey took 44 cc's of breast milk from Mommy (4 more then his feeding amount ~ first time doing this) and Bella (Mommy's breast feeding girl!) took 32 cc's of breast milk from Mommy!
At their second nursing sessions of the day, Trey took 40 cc's of breast milk from Mommy and Bella took 22 cc's of breast milk from Mommy!
Trey finished daily bottle numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 today! Trey will try 8 feedings by mouth tomorrow! Great job Trey!!!
Bella finished daily bottle number 1 and 2 today! This means she will "graduate" to 6 by mouth feedings per day tomorrow! Great job Bella!!!
Trey weighs 4 pounds 11.3 ounces and Bella weighs 4 pounds 2.4 ounces tonight!
Trey "graduated" to six by mouth feedings per day ~ two breast feedings with Mommy and four bottles! Bella will stay at four by mouth feedings per day until she completely finishes her two daily bottles!
At their first nursing sessions today, Trey took 44 cc's of breast milk from Mommy (4 more then his feeding amount ~ first time doing this) and Bella (Mommy's breast feeding girl!) took 32 cc's of breast milk from Mommy!
At their second nursing sessions of the day, Trey took 40 cc's of breast milk from Mommy and Bella took 22 cc's of breast milk from Mommy!
Trey finished daily bottle numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 today! Trey will try 8 feedings by mouth tomorrow! Great job Trey!!!
Bella finished daily bottle number 1 and 2 today! This means she will "graduate" to 6 by mouth feedings per day tomorrow! Great job Bella!!!
Trey weighs 4 pounds 11.3 ounces and Bella weighs 4 pounds 2.4 ounces tonight!
Wednesday, October 5, 2005
Feeding Progress
Trey and Bella moved up to four by mouth feeding per day today! The doctor is very happy with their progress!
At their first nursing sessions today, Trey and Bella ate 20 and 31 cc's of breast milk from Mommy, respectively!
Trey and Bella both finished bottle number one today! The nurse said that Trey was very excited and gobbled his right down. Bella didn't want to take hers until she thought no one was paying attention, then she drank the whole thing.
At their second nursing session of the day, Trey and Bella both did great! Bella took 40 cc's of breast milk from Mommy. Trey did a good job taking milk, but the scale malfunctioned so we are not sure exactly how much he ate. Because of this, he was offered a bottle for the rest of his feeding, and he took 5 cc's of breast milk from the bottle, so Mommy is guessing he ate about 30-35 cc's of breast milk directly from Mommy!
Trey and Bella are both doing well with bottle feeding. Trey finished his second bottle of the day tonight! Bella definitely prefers the breast ~ she only took 18 cc's from her second bottle.
Trey and Bella are both growing well! Trey weighs 4 pounds 10.7 ounces and Bella weighs 4 pounds 0.8 ounces tonight!
At their first nursing sessions today, Trey and Bella ate 20 and 31 cc's of breast milk from Mommy, respectively!
Trey and Bella both finished bottle number one today! The nurse said that Trey was very excited and gobbled his right down. Bella didn't want to take hers until she thought no one was paying attention, then she drank the whole thing.
At their second nursing session of the day, Trey and Bella both did great! Bella took 40 cc's of breast milk from Mommy. Trey did a good job taking milk, but the scale malfunctioned so we are not sure exactly how much he ate. Because of this, he was offered a bottle for the rest of his feeding, and he took 5 cc's of breast milk from the bottle, so Mommy is guessing he ate about 30-35 cc's of breast milk directly from Mommy!
Trey and Bella are both doing well with bottle feeding. Trey finished his second bottle of the day tonight! Bella definitely prefers the breast ~ she only took 18 cc's from her second bottle.
Trey and Bella are both growing well! Trey weighs 4 pounds 10.7 ounces and Bella weighs 4 pounds 0.8 ounces tonight!
Tuesday, October 4, 2005
One MONTH old
Gerald Charles and Isabella Christine are one month old today!!!!
Trey and Bella were offered a bottle again today ~ and both babies took the entire bottle!
At their first nursing sessions today, Trey and Bella ate 18 and 39 cc's of breast milk from Mommy, respectively!
At their second nursing sessions today, Trey and Bella ate 28 and 21 cc's of breast milk from Mommy, respectively!
Since Trey and Bella both completed three successful feedings by mouth today, they will both be offered four feeding by mouth tomorrow! (A successful bottle feeding means that they completed the entire bottle and a successful breast feeding means that they latched on correctly and transferred milk from Mommy to their tummy. They can not have any alarms from heart rate decelerations or oxygen desaturations for these feedings to be counted as "successful".)
Trey weighs 4 pounds 9.5 ounces tonight!
Bella weighs 3 pounds 15.5 ounces tonight!
Trey and Bella were offered a bottle again today ~ and both babies took the entire bottle!
At their first nursing sessions today, Trey and Bella ate 18 and 39 cc's of breast milk from Mommy, respectively!
At their second nursing sessions today, Trey and Bella ate 28 and 21 cc's of breast milk from Mommy, respectively!
Since Trey and Bella both completed three successful feedings by mouth today, they will both be offered four feeding by mouth tomorrow! (A successful bottle feeding means that they completed the entire bottle and a successful breast feeding means that they latched on correctly and transferred milk from Mommy to their tummy. They can not have any alarms from heart rate decelerations or oxygen desaturations for these feedings to be counted as "successful".)
Trey weighs 4 pounds 9.5 ounces tonight!
Bella weighs 3 pounds 15.5 ounces tonight!
Monday, October 3, 2005
Bottle or Breast?
Mommy spoke with the NICU Doctor in the morning when she woke up to pump and the Doctor told Mommy that both Gerald and Isabella had a great night!
Bella took 42 cc's of breast milk from Mommy at her morning nursing session! Someone must have forgotten to tell Bella that she only eats 36 cc's per feeding.
Trey did an excellent job at his first nursing session of the day! He took 30 cc's of breast milk from Mommy!
Mommy had her post partum check up today. Dr. Rosen said that Mommy is doing very well. He said there are still some things that will be difficult or uncomfortable for Mommy's incision, but gave Mommy approval to resume living like a normal human being again ~ for the very first time this year! Mommy is almost back to her pre-pregnancy/pre-fertility medication weight. She only has five more pounds to loose!
Both babies had their weekly blood draws today and the results were normal!
Mommy thinks getting blood takes wore the babies out! At the second nursing session of the day, Trey took 14 cc's of breast milk from Mommy and Bella took 16 cc's of breast milk from Mommy.
Trey and Bella were each offered a bottle for the second time today! The nurse said that Trey was so excited and tried very hard to eat from the bottle, getting 17 cc's of breast milk from it! What a good boy! Bella showed all of her feeding cues showing that she was ready to eat, until she realized that the nurse was giving her a bottle, at which point she refused to eat anything from the bottle! I guess she is a breast feeding girl!
Bella took 42 cc's of breast milk from Mommy at her morning nursing session! Someone must have forgotten to tell Bella that she only eats 36 cc's per feeding.
Trey did an excellent job at his first nursing session of the day! He took 30 cc's of breast milk from Mommy!
Mommy had her post partum check up today. Dr. Rosen said that Mommy is doing very well. He said there are still some things that will be difficult or uncomfortable for Mommy's incision, but gave Mommy approval to resume living like a normal human being again ~ for the very first time this year! Mommy is almost back to her pre-pregnancy/pre-fertility medication weight. She only has five more pounds to loose!
Both babies had their weekly blood draws today and the results were normal!
Mommy thinks getting blood takes wore the babies out! At the second nursing session of the day, Trey took 14 cc's of breast milk from Mommy and Bella took 16 cc's of breast milk from Mommy.
Trey and Bella were each offered a bottle for the second time today! The nurse said that Trey was so excited and tried very hard to eat from the bottle, getting 17 cc's of breast milk from it! What a good boy! Bella showed all of her feeding cues showing that she was ready to eat, until she realized that the nurse was giving her a bottle, at which point she refused to eat anything from the bottle! I guess she is a breast feeding girl!
Sunday, October 2, 2005
Four Weeks old!
Gerald and Isabella are four weeks old today!
The doctor increased both babies feeding amount today! Trey is now eating 40 cc's of breast milk per feeding and Bella is now eating 36 cc's of breast milk per feeding!
At his first nursing session today, Trey took 19 cc's of breast milk from Mommy!
At her first nursing session today, Bella took 38 cc's from Mommy!
Both babies had their first bottle today! Trey took 14 cc's of breast milk from the bottle and Bella took 10 cc's of breast milk from the bottle!
At his second nursing session today, Trey took 27 cc's of breast milk from Mommy!
At her second nursing session today, Bella took 32 cc's of breast milk from Mommy!
The doctor increased both babies feeding amount today! Trey is now eating 40 cc's of breast milk per feeding and Bella is now eating 36 cc's of breast milk per feeding!
At his first nursing session today, Trey took 19 cc's of breast milk from Mommy!
At her first nursing session today, Bella took 38 cc's from Mommy!
Both babies had their first bottle today! Trey took 14 cc's of breast milk from the bottle and Bella took 10 cc's of breast milk from the bottle!
At his second nursing session today, Trey took 27 cc's of breast milk from Mommy!
At her second nursing session today, Bella took 32 cc's of breast milk from Mommy!
Saturday, October 1, 2005
Gaining weight
Trey and Bella were both doing well when Mommy called the NICU in the morning.
They decided not to try Bella on the bottle quite yet because she still had some low heart rate dips last night. Perhaps in a few days, they will both be ready for their bottles!
Trey and Bella are competing today and both took 20 cc's of breast milk from Mommy at their first nursing session!
At his second nursing session, Trey took 17 cc's of breast milk from Mommy!
At her second nursing session, Bella took 34 cc's of breast milk from Mommy!
Trey weighs 4 pounds 5.9 ounces tonight!
Bella weighs 3 pounds 12.1 ounces tonight!
They decided not to try Bella on the bottle quite yet because she still had some low heart rate dips last night. Perhaps in a few days, they will both be ready for their bottles!
Trey and Bella are competing today and both took 20 cc's of breast milk from Mommy at their first nursing session!
At his second nursing session, Trey took 17 cc's of breast milk from Mommy!
At her second nursing session, Bella took 34 cc's of breast milk from Mommy!
Trey weighs 4 pounds 5.9 ounces tonight!
Bella weighs 3 pounds 12.1 ounces tonight!
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