May 9

Vivian and her cute little face you can actually see now!

The girls are off CPAP!!  Yay!!!  This is such a huge step. They came off of it yesterday and are now just on nasal cannula, which is just regular oxygen, no pressure. They are doing awesome with it and don't even seem to notice that the CPAP is gone. The nasal cannula tubing is a lot smaller than the CPAP, so we can actually see their faces;)

Last night I held Vivian wrapped up in a blanket like a normal newborn, and it was so wonderful. That may seem like a small thing, but I got to see her face and talk to her and I've never gotten to do that before. She was awake the whole time I held her, almost a hour, just sucking away on her pacifier! Julie, one of our nurses said she is going to see if we can start to practice breastfeeding since the girls are showing so many signs that they are ready for it. Julie will also dip their pacifiers in breastmilk sometimes before giving them to the girls during their feedings and they love it!

Mary is on 27 ml of breastmilk per feed and Vivian is on 29 ml now. Almost a whole ounce! They are growing and changing like crazy. They also decreased the time that they get their feeds over from 90 minutes to 60 minutes to start to get them ready to take oral feeds. Its kind of surreal that we are already at this point, I never thought it would come!

Last night Mary definitely showed her little personality...we turned her on her stomach after her diaper change and she screamed bloody murder! Nothing we did would calm her down. Normally they love laying on their tummies! So we flipped her back over on her back and she instantly stopped crying and just started looking around. I was like oh my gosh are you kidding!!  hahah. She definitely has her preferences ;) Its good that they like their backs though, because they are needing some head shaping done. Their heads are long and narrow from always laying on one side or the other when they were tiny, so they need to lay on their backs to round their heads out. Also, once they move to just regular cribs they have to always be on their backs, so they have to be able to tolerate lying on their backs before the move.

Also, Norah go to hold Mary last night for the first time. She did SO good. She is a natural I think! I think she would have held her all night if we would have let her. When it was time to put her back she cried a little bit, but then stopped and asked the nurse if she could hold Viv-win haha. Norah talked to Mary, and touched her head and her hands and was just so gentle with her. She also said to her "I love you," completely on her own and unprompted by us. It totally melted my heart! She had to wear her princess dress and shoes that Grammy got her to the hospital to show her "sissers." All of the nurses loved it and she got a ton of attention which she did not mind;)

We also want to say happy birthday to Brampa! Hope you have a great day Larry Chaplin!

Proud big sister

She's a natural!

Mary without her tubes!