It's the babies' four month birthday today! Hard to believe. Matthew worked on his camoflage skills today (see picture), and James is getting his hands near his mouth, but apparently has decided that his thumb is not an adequate substitute for his beloved pacifier. (Matthew also moved up to Size 1 diapers today, but that was mainly because we finished off the box of newborns and had a box of Size 1s -- which are for babies 8-14 lbs -- available. Thanks, Auntie Nora!)They increased James's feeds today to 4 ml/hour, and he's doing well with it so far. They're trying him on a new blood pressure medicine that also acts as a diuretic, so that hopefully they won't have to continue giving him Lasix for fluid retention. (Before his surgery, he was able to even out on his own after he'd been on the 5 ml/hour feedings for a while, so probably the same thing will happen this time once he gets to some higher volumes of food.) And his bilirubin went down to 8, which is still high but moving in the right direction.
The other night, James's nurse told us that he had been in the NICU the second-longest of all the babies currently there. (Not just in Pod F, but the whole NICU.) Ouch!
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