Forget what you've heard about newborns and their poor eyesight, poor coordination, etc. Little Emily already has a reputation with the nurses as being "full of attitude". We don't know if she's gotten it from Mommy, Daddy or her namesake, Great Grandmother Emily. There's no path that will really make it any easier on us... Oh well, good thing she's cute. And as far as poor coordination, well... She's in an incubator now with only four holes in it. This afternoon she found the only open hole and heaved her pacifier out onto the floor... TWICE. She was due for a bottle, coincidence??? I think not.
Noah it seems, has heard and understood that he's been called the "runt", "smallest" and so on. He knows he needs his bottles to get going and growing so when he wakes up, it's time to eat... NOW. He starts making noise and he'll quiet down if you come to him and start to interact with him, within reason. The nurses have a routine where they check temperature, diaper and listen to their bellies before they get their feeding. Noah will give you a minute to do what you have to do, but if he's not moving out of the incubator into feeding position, you'll hear from him. As soon as the bottle gets into his mouth, all is quiet. The nurses have taken to putting extra formula in his bottle because he's power-sucking his bottles.
Sydney had Daddy going with the sweet little angel act. She's quiet and sweet... and scheming. She's not a fan of the tube they're still using to check their bellies and push any formula they don't finish from the bottles into them directly. The tube is taped to her face and she's constantly tugging at it, trying to get it out. Now I hate to accuse my daughter, but I swear the last time I fed her she would open her eyes just a tiny bit to see if Daddy was watching and then her little hand would come snaking out of the blanket and grab the tube! "No, no Sydney, you still need that", I would say and tuck her hand back in and reach to pick the bottle up and there goes her little hand again! Then she opens her eyes wide and looks at me all cross-eyed and I chuckle a little and she goes back to tugging at her tube. What a will on that little girl! Last time Mommy tried to feed her, Sydney wanted nothing to do with the bottle, she just wanted to be held by Mommy. The nurse had to take her and get her finished up in time for shift change.
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Right now Amy is resting and I wanted to post another update to this since now I know that it's quickly becoming a popular means of checking up on the beans for all concerned about them. Thank you for all the love and support we've gotten from you all, we feel it and we tell the beans all about the big family they have waiting to meet them. I can't wait to get them healthy, get them home and get them on their way in this world.
We're planning on going down for the 11:30/12:00/12:30 feeding cycle and I'll try to get some current snapshots to put up here, since I know you all want to see how they're doing day-to-day. I'm also working on a web-based photo album that I can just post most all of our baby pictures to and you guys can scroll through them all.
-John
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