Field Trip

We had bad timing during our visit to the hospital today. To begin with, we must have arrived just as the "prepared childbirth" classes were getting out, because there were several pregnant women and their husbands carrying pillows back to the parking garage as we were driving in. (We were supposed to take that class in June, but instead, we had an unprepared childbirth!) Anything that brings up the thought, "I should still be pregnant" is not very helpful for me at this point, and a parade of preggy ladies falls in that category.

Then we were getting ready to hold the babies, and first there was a problem getting Matthew's CPAP in the right position (you might be sensing a theme with this; I have a feeling it'll be a struggle until he "graduates" from it!), and then the word came that the babies would be moved to a different room.

Our NICU is organized into six "pods" (insert your own pod people joke here), identified by letter. Our boys are in Pod F. (The letters don't signify anything; babies are placed in pods based on where there are openings when they arrive, and with twins they always try to put them next to each other.) Because there are relatively few babies in the NICU right now, they're doing a big floor cleaning, which involves moving everything out of the room/pod being cleaned. Yesterday we had several "guest babies" in our pod while theirs was being cleaned. (Interestingly, Matthew's new neighbor was also a 27-weeker, born a day before our boys, and at the exact same birth weight as Mattie!) Today they were ready to clean our pod, so our babies were moved temporarily into Pod D around the corner. The move didn't bother them at all. And the one advantage of Pod D is that it has very nice pictures of doggies on the wall, including beagle puppies! (Each pod has pictures that start with its letter. James is under a flamingo and Mattie is by some fish.)

But, with all the commotion of the move, we didn't get to hold the little guys today, which was disappointing. They're doing well, though. Mattie is even starting to look a little chubby, relatively speaking! (This picture is from a couple of days ago -- he's filled out even more since then.)