Note:

This blog is being created on Easter, so I've backdated the first few posts to match them up with when they happened.

At this point, Emily is still needing a little oxygen to help her breathe, so she has a little tube (cannula) in her nostrils. She likes to tug it out, though... Two days old and feisty already! She hasn't taken a bottle yet, but she's sweet and beautiful and her Daddy loves holding her while she sleeps.

Noah came off the oxygen his first night, and hasn't had any breathing trouble since. He was the smallest when born and also lost the most weight afterwards. Mommy calls him her "little bird-man" since he reminds her of a baby chick. He loves to be held and loves to be wrapped up tight in his blanket.

Sydney may have been the last one out, but she's lining up to be the first for everything! She was first to meet Mommy, first to take a bottle, first to try nursing and at this rate she'll be first to come home!

The neonatologist has examined all of them and declared them to be AMAZINGLY healthy, given how early they were born (first day of the 35th week). He reminded us that they still have a lot of growing and developing to do and will need a lot of care to begin with. He thinks it will be at least a couple weeks before any of them are ready to be released.

They are in the NICU at St. Francis Hospital South in Indianapolis. A wonderful hospital with excellent staff taking great care of our little miracles.

Amy and I are welcome to visit them in the NICU anytime other than their shift change. We can feed them, take their temperature, diaper them (yeech!) and hold them as long as we want. We are DEFINITELY taking advantage of that opportunity as best we can. Amy still needs her rest (she's supposed to be napping while I'm doing this), but when she feels up to it, I take her down to see her children. She's a natural with her children, loving and gentle the way I knew she'd be.