Day 46!!!

Sorry for the late post, but as you may know we celebrated my Mom's 60th birthday last night, and lets just say I needed to sleep in a little this morning and then head to work, I'll leave it at that! 

The boys are approaching 4lbs fast!!! Joseph as of last night weiged 3lb 15.5oz, and Nicholas 3lb 8.5 oz!!!  Kalleigh and I are heading to the hospital shortly for tonight's weigh in, and hopefully we will see a 4 pound reading!!! It's pretty exciting considering where they boys started to see them progressing so well!!!  Also, the boys have grown in length as well, they were both 13 inches at birth, and now are both 16 inches!!! 

Both boys had their feedings increased today, Nicholas is now receiving 29ml every 3 hours, and Joseph is getting 32ml!!!  We are hoping this increase puts on weight at an even faster pace now!!!  The boys have been tolerating the increase great, and when I visited them earlier today they were both showing good vital signs, and holding strong on their oxygen saturation levels!!!  It's amazing how alike they are in their vital signs too, especially when we hold them close together and they can touch each others hands!!! 

I'm putting a picture of Joseph's monitor on the blog for everyone to see what we look at when we visit.  The green number is the baby's heart rate which we want above 100 and usually in the 120-160 range, and the blue number is the oxygen saturation level.  The nurses and doctors want the waves next to the oxygen level to be constant just like they are in this picture!  The white number is the respiratory rate of the baby, which should be between 10-100.  Just wanted to let everyone know how we judge their progress through out the day!  The technology is great, and as you can see in the lower left, since the nurses have more than one baby they are able to put another monitor on the same screen so they can see both babies at once.  The lower left here is Nicholas!!!