Penny and Isaak - Together Again

So today Isaak made a big stride and is now living with his big sister in their new house:

You can catch a few more extra cute pictures in our photo albums.

If they were still in utero, I would have been 34 weeks pregnant today.  Instead, I'm finding it hard to believe that they are going to be 2 months old tomorrow.  In any case, Neil and I are so excited to see them together in their crib.

Now that they are 2 months old and have gained a bit of weight, their immunizations will start.  To minimize the chance of reactions, they'll only get one shot per day.  Since there are five shots due at 2 months, it will take five days to get them all.  The five they will be getting are polio, hepatitis B, Hib (influenza type B), pneumococcal, and DTaP.  Speaking of vaccines, it is recommended that adults get a pertussis (whooping cough) booster - especially if they spend any time around infants and children. 

Penny has been doing very well "practice" breastfeeding.  Today she managed to "nurse" for about 30 minutes.  And she even ate about 2 mls of milk!  She's got the process down - latching on, suckling, swallowing and remembering to pause and breathe occasionally, too.  I'm so proud of her.  =)  She'll still get most of her nutrition via her ng tube.  In fact, she was bumped to 41 mls every 3 hours with 5 packs of HMF.  Her weight tonight was 1956 g (4 lbs., 4.9 oz).  Be sure to look for her chubby cheeks and double chin in the new photos.

Isaak's weight gain has continued as well.  In fact, last night he hit the magic number of 1800 g - the minimum amount in order to do his surgery.  Tonight he dropped to 1795 g (3 lbs., 15.3 oz).  I wouldn't be surprised if he surpasses the 2000 g (2 kg or 4 lbs, 6.5 oz) goal before his surgery in two weeks.  Isaak has also gotten to do a little bit of practice breastfeeding.  He's not as adept as his sister, but as we've seen over the past few weeks, he'll catch up with her in his own time.

Both babies are doing well respiratory wise.  Isaak's still at 2 lpm and room air (21% oxygen).  Penny's usually somewhere between room air and 25% oxygen and is now at 1.5 lpm.  They've both had many fewer A's and B's and almost always "self resolve" when they do.  But mostly they just desat every now and again.  For Penny, actually, it's about every 3 hours...when she poops.  One of her nurses nicknamed her Poopsy Penny.  Occasionally I'll call her Princess Penny Poopy Pants.

She's gonna love that story when she's 15.  =)