Continual Progression

This week has been a little crazy. Amy has been on a very busy baby-feeding schedule.

7:00 am – Katelyn
11:00 am - Brandon (in SLC)
1:00 pm - Katelyn
7:00 pm - Katelyn
11: pm - Brandon (in SLC)
(1:00 am -bottle feeding for Katelyn – done by the nurses)

This has meant that her day starts at about 6:15 and we get home from Salt Lake about 12:45. And as you can see, there isn’t much time for taking naps. Both babies eat every three hours but part of the difficulty in scheduling is that they don’t want to do a nursing or bottle feeding back to back. They prefer to do a feeding through the tube in-between.

The good news is that things keep changing because they are both progressing. We just got a phone call from the pediatrician a couple of minutes ago. He is going to add a second bottle-feeding to her schedule. This may not sound like it will help the schedule much at first, but when we did the math we noticed that, because the schedule is now full for Katelyn we are forced to do three nursing/bottle feedings in a row. This will give Amy much for flexibility.

Katelyn is doing well and it seems like it might not be too long before we can bring her home. She just needs to continue to progress on her feedings. Most likely she will still need oxygen when she comes home.

Brandon is doing really well in his open crib. He continues to grow steadily and is always more and more alert. He really likes to be held and we certainly like to hold him. He did however have an eye exam and his eyes progressed to one step worse. However the doctor said that even thought they got worse there were signs of them getting better. He isn’t at the point where they would consider lazar surgery and the doctor seemed hopeful that they could still improve on their own.