On August 10, 2011 (my actual due date), we made our final trip from the NICU to our house with both Emily and Matthew in the back seat. We spent the night before at the NICU Care by Parent room with both babies. He left the NICU weighing 4 lbs 11 oz (2lbs 10oz more than he weighed 62 days ago!!!).
We went to see Dr Miller, the eye doctor on Thursday for Emily and her eyes are looking good. There is a condition in preemies called ROP or Retinopathy of prematurity, which means that the retinas are not fully formed so Dr Miller will monitor them until they are fully formed. Then we went Dr. Bhakta's office for our followup on Friday and Matthew weighed 4lbs 12oz (gain of 1 oz in 48 hrs) and Emily weighed 6lbs 2 oz. Both babies had blood work and barely whimpered for the needle stick in their heels. Now they screamed for the weighing and the taking of the temps under their arms... go figure!!
They have follow ups with cardiology, eye doctor and pediatrician this week and next week so that's where the outings are limited to at this point. We also have to limit visitors and no children because of germs.
We are now working on getting a Nanny to come to our house to watch the twins while we go to work. This is one way to safeguard the babies against flu and RSV.
(I will post more pics when I have time, which we are short on right now but love it)
We went to see Dr Miller, the eye doctor on Thursday for Emily and her eyes are looking good. There is a condition in preemies called ROP or Retinopathy of prematurity, which means that the retinas are not fully formed so Dr Miller will monitor them until they are fully formed. Then we went Dr. Bhakta's office for our followup on Friday and Matthew weighed 4lbs 12oz (gain of 1 oz in 48 hrs) and Emily weighed 6lbs 2 oz. Both babies had blood work and barely whimpered for the needle stick in their heels. Now they screamed for the weighing and the taking of the temps under their arms... go figure!!
They have follow ups with cardiology, eye doctor and pediatrician this week and next week so that's where the outings are limited to at this point. We also have to limit visitors and no children because of germs.
We are now working on getting a Nanny to come to our house to watch the twins while we go to work. This is one way to safeguard the babies against flu and RSV.
(I will post more pics when I have time, which we are short on right now but love it)
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