I suppose it's time for an update...

I am wondering how to start this posting, so I gues I will just update you on each one of the boys.
Alex - Alex has been having quite the bouts of reflux lately. So, the other day the started him on a continuous feed. That means that he gets food constantly into his feeding tube and that keeps his stomach full. It should help his reflux. So far it is working pretty well. He has had a few spit-ups, but not nearly as bad as he used to have.

He was also having some pretty good de-sats (oxygen level drops). They checked his red blood cell count and it was very low. He had a blood transfusion to help with that. It also seems to be helping, but we won't know for sure for the next couple of days.

Otherwise, he is doing really well. He is weighs 3lbs 12oz tonight.

Grant - Grant had a big day today. The nurse said that he is big enough now that he can come out of the isolette. That means he will be going to a crib. He will still be staying with the other two boys in this NICU. They like to keep multiples together until they go home. So he will move to the crib probably tomorrow.

We also tried the bottle with him today. He sort of got the suck-swallow-breath job down. Out of the 38ml he gets for each feeding, he ate about 10ml of it by bottle. The nurse said that was really good for the first time bottle feeding! He did so good and gave us a big burp afterwords. :) Last night he weighed 4lbs 5oz.

Ethan - Ethan also had a big day, but not a nice one like Grant. :-( We got a phone call this morning (I really am starting to hate weekends) and he had to go into surgery today. He needed to get a line put in to a vein because the IV lines they have had in him keep infiltrating. That means that they keep leaking into his body. He has had two in his arms that infiltrated and caused a bunch of blisters. The surgery went well and he continues to recover. The doctors are pleased with the line placement and how he is doing. (The line is like the central line he had in before, but this one goes in through his neck).

He also had to have a blood transfusion after his surgery. His red blood cell count was low too. So, hopefully he will start to get better and be able to get healthy and grow. Not that he isn't growing though. He was at 2lb 14oz last night!

Like I said, I really have been dreading the weekends cause things always happen to them on the weekends, especially Ethan. Hopefully next weekend will be better. It should be, we have our first baby shower!!!

On other news, I want to say Congrats to our pastor and his wife, Brain and Tara, on the birth of their new son, Joel! Congrats!