Big boy bed and great news!

Anderson crossed an important weight threshold today.  He now weighs 4lbs, 1 oz!  The temperature in his isolette is as low as it will go, so he will likely get moved into an open crib.  Once he is in the crib, we can hold him and interact with him as much as we want.  We will have to wait until Carter is a little bit larger for him to join Anderson in the crib.

Carter did not gain any weight, so he is still 2lbs, 12 oz.  He is doing a great job with his feeding and took 10ml from the bottle yesterday when Ty was feeding him.  The doctor was very pleased to hear that feeding is going so well.  I held him today as they gave him the first injection of his medicine.  He cried a little, but actually took it better than I thought.

The best news for both boys is that their head ultrasounds came back normal.  They began doing head ultrasounds the day after the boys were born to assess for bleeding.  Apparently the first 72 hours are the most critical, and luckily the boys cleared that time without any problems.  On the next follow up ultrasound, they saw a small amount of patchy white matter on Anderson's ultrasound, which could indicate cerebral palsy.  The doctor told us about it and told us he firmly believed it was just a case of the technology evolving and us being able to see things that we never could before.  He believed it was just an artifact and thought Anderson was probably okay. As much as his words were reassuring, we were of course still worried about Anderson. So it was wonderful news yesterday to hear that their one month follow up ultrasounds were normal.

When I visited the boys tonight, Carter seemed upset and just didn't look like he felt well, so the doctor ordered a chest x-ray. He'd had a fair amount of mucus in his nose today and seemed to be struggling when breathing through his nose.  The chest x-ray looked fine, so the doctor thinks he is likely just overtired from a big day. He breastfed this morning, then had time with a speech pathologist for evaluation and bottle feeding and maybe it was just a little too much for him.  His oxygen levels seemed pretty good and his color was good, so the doctor wasn't too worried that there was any other respiratory issue going on.  Hopefully he is feeling better tomorrow.