Madelyn and Preston Reunited!!!

Mommy and Madelyn

Madelyn Smiling

Daddy and Parker

Preston getting his first swaddle bath.

Dahlia wearing her bow

Madelyn and Preston's Reunion

All of the babies are doing really really well! Dahlia's blood gases are getting better so they are able to do some weaning of the SIPAP. She weighs 6 pounds 7 ounces now which is really neat because that is what Eva was at birth!

Parker is on 2 liters on the canula so that is really good! He is up to 3 to 4 bottle per day (8 bottles and he can come home)! He is so cute because he really chugs those bottles down! He can drink his entire feed in 15 minutes which is great for a baby just starting on the bottle!

Madelyn is up to 5 to 6 bottle feeds per day! We are so close to getting her home! Once she has got 6 feeds down, she will do the car seat test to make sure she doesnt brady or desat while sitting in a car seat. She also needs to get the hearing test and then she can come home.

Preston is doing amazing! He is down to 2.5 liters on the canula. He will be getting a bottle for the first time today!

Yesterday was so neat because we got to reunite Madelyn and Preston since they are both stable on the canula. Preston was so nice because he is now sharing his bed with his sister! It was so neat to see them together! We were surprised to see all of the similarities in their looks!

LONG OVERDUE!!!

Madelyn

Preston

Mommy and Parker

Parker back on CPAP for a couple of days.

Nana and Parker

Grammy and Madelyn

Grammy and Eva

Baby Parker getting a bath

Mommy giving Parker kisses

Madelyn

Baby Dahlia on SiPap

Preston

Parker

Grammy and Preston

Parker

Dahlia

Preston on CPAP

Grandma and Parker

Trever and Parker

Parker getting a swaddle bath

Grandma and Madelyn

Grandma and Dahlia

Parker in his bouncy seat

Grandma and Preston

Eva

Mommy,Daddy and Eva on our anniversary

I am so so so sorry it has taken me so long to post again! Life has been way busy and Trever and I never ever have down time. First of all Trever and I celebrated our 4 year anniversary yesterday! I love him so much and I am so happy to have him as my husband! These 4 years have been jam packed with events that have really changed our lives! I am the happiest I have ever been!

Madelyn-

OK this little fireball of a baby is doing FABULOUS! She actually could come home as early as next week! We are so excited I cannot even tell you! Once she gets up to 8 feedings per day on the bottle she can come home. Right now she is at 5 and every couple of days she will go up to another bottle feed. She looks just like Eva when Eva was a baby. It is amazing! She is still on the canula but at extremely low settings. The doctors are wanting to get her feeds up before they completely take her off of the canula. In fact, she will probably be sent home on oxygen. She weighs 5 pounds 7 ounces and she is now the same size as Preston and she is no longer our smallest baby. She is still wearing preemie sized clothing, but not for long!

Preston-

Preston is really doing AMAZING! He has been extubated and went onto the SIPAP for a couple of days. He was doing so well on that so they moved him onto the CPAP. He has been doing great on that and he is supposed to be on canula today! I cannot believe how well he has been doing! He is so handsome and still has honey blonde hair! He loves to hear our voice and wakes up right away when he hears us! He has now outgrown his preemie clothes :( :) kind of bittersweet. The other day he had high bands from his blood culture which can indicate an infection. They decided to investigate further and all results came back negative for infection! We were relieved to not have to deal with another major setback. If all goes well with bottle feeding, he should be able to be home by his due date on April 14th.

Parker-

This little man is such a flirt! He is making all of the NICU nurses sign up to be primaries for our babies because he flirts with them lol! He is on nasal canula and working down his settings. He had a bit of a setback because he was a little too aggressive at nursing and got overwhelmed. So for a couple of days they had to move him back to CPAP. We havent started bottle feeding him again but we should be back to doing that within the next day or two. He is now our smallest baby weighing in at 5 pounds 7 ounces. He has outgrown his preemie clothes too!

Dahlia-

Dahlia is such a little fighter! She has been working so hard on the SIPAP and her settings are still pretty high. The doctors might administer steroids in the next few days to help her out a little bit because they are trying to avoid reintubating her. She is now our biggest baby and weighs in at 6 pounds 1 ounce! I cannot believe how big she is getting! She too, has outgrown her preemie clothes.

All of the babies range in about the 50th percentile for size which is amazing because they were born at 25 weeks and are high order multiples. They are now 36 weeks and 3 days. This journey has been so long and Trever and I both are ready to have them home! We appreciate all of the support we have gotten from our friends and family members and we love you all!

Our lives just got a lot Better and Busier!

Daddy and Dahlia

Madelyn doing her exercises.

Mommy holding preston for the first time.

Daddy and Madelyn.

Mommy, Daddy and Parker

Daddy holding Preston for the first time.

Mommy, Daddy and Preston

Madelyn after her swaddle bath.

Madelyn getting her first swaddle bath.

Madelyn

Daddy and Madelyn

Preston

Daddy and Dahlia

Parker

Madelyn

During this past week there have been some really awesome changes with the babies! First of all, all of the babies are now out of their isolettes and in cribs. Madelyn is in a big girl crib that full term newborns get put in, pretty much a plastic bin on wheels. The nurses are now playing lullabies for the babies! We went out and bought rattles because now we are working with each of the babies developmentally. We do stretches with them and work on their range of motion. We also get to bring in mobiles to put on their cribs for playtime! They will be bringing in swings and bouncy chairs for the babies too!

We are really moving into a new exciting phase now! The phase that entails getting the babies ready to come home. A couple of days ago I started nuzzling the babies to introduce them to breastfeeding. They were doing so well with that and actually were able to latch. Today was the first day I got to nurse! I will be nursing both Parker and Madelyn and when the other two babies get off of the ventilator, they can try it too! We also get to do pacifier dips. This is where we dip the pacifier in milk and then give it to them during their feed so they associate sucking with the feeling of being full.

3 days ago Dahlia tried the Si Pap. She lasted a little longer than a day but she was really uncomfortable. When we visited her that afternoon she was really upset and was crying and it really broke our hearts. So I decided to stay for a while and hold her and she calmed down pretty well. They reintubated her because her heart rate kept skyrocketing and she was getting really worn out. I am actually happy they did,because it was so hard to see her like that! We will try it again in a week!

Preston is doing fabulous! We are going to try to get him off the ventilator in the next day or two! He and all of his siblings are no longer on any antibiotics anymore! Trever and I got to hold him for the first time and it was really so amazing. I always knew that he was such a strong boy, but man he definitely has a very sturdy frame! He is such a little love bug and we could both tell he was loving being held!

Like I said in the title, we are really getting to see a glimpse of just how busy life is going to be. Between taking care of Eva, taking care of the house, going to work, pumping, holding the babies, nursing the babies, playing with the babies and going back and forth, we literally have zero time left over in the day. I cannot believe I actually have time to write this post! It is nice to sit for a quick second....

That being said, I have 20 minutes to take a shower and then we have to get back to the hospital so gotta jet! Love you all!