5 pounds, 6 pounds - and baths!

David:Margot:

It has been a busy week for the twins - full of activities and visitors.  Margot is now over 5 pounds!  She is 5 lbs, 2 oz, to be exact.  And David is 5 lbs, 15.8 oz.  If we were rounding, that would be 6 pounds! Hooray!  And since they are almost 36 weeks gestation - and 6 weeks old, they got new big-boy and big-girl pacifiers (as shown in the above photos).

The plan to move each of them down to 30-minute feeds and 1 liter of air on nasal cannula was a total success.  We marched on with our changes each day.  We also switched them from zantac to prilosec for their reflux.  They are still having lots of self-limiting desats (that they come out of on their own) which are causing alarms, but since they don't need stimulation or anything, we are not as concerned.  So we started trying to breast feed yesterday.  Both David and Margot are doing a really good job, but we still haven't fully mastered breast feeding.  It's not for lack of trying, though!

Dad (Da) got to hold the babies for the first time this week!  Here are some pictures from that momentous occasion:

Bubba's parents came to visit, too.  Here is a picture of Debbie holding David:

Sunday night was a fun night.  Bubba and I went to the hospital to help one of the nurses give David and Margot tub baths.  Bubba was the bather, and he did a great job!  Both Margot and David LOVED their baths.  They were both fussy until they hit that warm water, then they just melted.  David was his usual mellow self the entire time.  Margot was putty in her dad's hands once he massaged her eyebrows. 

We got lots of pictures from bath time!  The first ones are from David's bath, followed by Margot's.