Through with it Thursday

If you are not following us on Facebook, I apologize for the lack of updates.  Tuesday and Wednesday were "business as usual" except that we were at the hospital until after midnight both days to make sure we held our babies for 3 hours while fitting in other obligations.  We gave brief updates on FB and I promised to post today.

Well luckily for me, I have something to report on!  This morning we received a call from Grayson's nurse to give us a heads up that he switched to a CPAP over night.  This was the next step for him and he made the transition successfully.  Our 3.7 pound stud muffin is 1 step closer to going home!

And if that was our only praise today, we would be 2 happy parents.  But wait, there is more!

Both our kids have been running warm temperatures in their environment.  I think they take after me that way.  They are not feverish but their bodies don't need the help from the isolettes that would be expected of babies their size.  For example, Grayson's isolette was set at its lowest heat setting, 26.2 degrees Celsius.  When he was swaddled without clothes, he was registering a temperature of 37.4, which is at the very high end of where they want to see the kids.  Ideally they are closer to 36.8.

So they made the decision today to graduate Scarlett to a crib!  A crib!  A CRIB!!!!!  She is probably a little more than 100 grams under the typical bench mark but gets her "hot bloodedness" from me, so she moved up early!

And if those were the only blessings, we would be beaming ear to ear.  But wait, there's more!

Scarlett spent some time at 21% oxygen while kangarooing and then spent her 9pm care without support for 30 minutes!

And as giddy as we are about that, there is still more!!!

Tonight, for the first time, our kids are sharing a nurse!  1 nurse for my 2 children!  This is a sign that the nursing staff finally feels that the workload of my 2 babies would not overwhelm one nurse.  Up until now, they would assign us two nurses and have them both paired with another child who is only working on feeding because our kids had too great of a risk that something could come up.

To make that even better, the single nurse we had is one of our favorites.  Kelsey has been with us since the beginning and has been Scarlett's primary.  From what I can tell, she is a top notch medical professional but she also understands that she has to "nurse" the parents from time to time.  Most of the decorations we have were created by her.  Her love for my babies is obvious and we are grateful to have her share in this milestone!

Grayson gets 1 photo tonight.  He is not happy in any of the others:

Scarlett in her crib:

Goodbye Isolette!