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Things have been a little hectic these days to say the least! Having Emmerson home is wonderful but extremely tiring...especially when we need to take rides to the hospital between feedings instead of napping. Everyone says: "sleep when she sleeps" is a nice idea, but not our reality unfortunately. Anyway, things are good so far. Here is an update on each of our babies:

Emmerson:
Emmi had her first good night's sleep last night, and John and I both managed to get about 7 hours of sleep between our shifts. It was wonderful! She is now 5 lbs. 15 oz. and growing fast! She eats almost 3 oz. every feeding (80-90 cc or ml for those who follow the hospital jargen) She is the little princess at home and is definitely getting the royal treatment.

Logan:
We are saying our prayers that Logan will continue to eat well and meet his discharge requirements in the next day or so. He had his feeding tube removed and is eating pretty well by mouth. He is not eating his entire feed every time, but the doctors removed his minimum requirement and as long as he gains weight, he should be home on Saturday. They are scheduling his circumcision for tomorrow as long as he does well eating tonight and the tube does not need to go back in. Please pray for him. He is still the smallest, but coming in strong...he now weighs 5 lbs. 8 oz. ! That is quite a gain from his meek 2 lbs. 11 oz. that he entered this world at! We are very proud of our little lion and hoping he is home with us on Saturday.

Brody:
For starters, our little power house now weighs in at 7 lbs. 2 oz! That's right...he is over 7 lbs.!!! Pretty unbelievable! Everyone is very happy with this weight gain. Brody is having a difficult time eating. He has what is referred to as "strider" noises while he is eating which is leading the speech path and doctors to assess whether he is aspirating while he eats. They have now started to thicken his food to see if that helps and on Monday he will undergo a video swallow test to see where the liquid is going and to see if there is any difference between the thin and thick formula. We are hoping and praying that we will find a way to make the eating process easier for him so he too can be on his way home! We are already having a hard time imagining him at the hospital all by himself...we sure don't want that to be any long stretch of time!

I hope you enjoy the new pictures of the babies. They are now 36 weeks and 5 days gestational age and 6 weeks 2 days old. Boy how the time flies...!!!!