Cautiously optimistic

I am so dead tired and it's 11.30pm so just a quick update from me!

Tonight we are feeling hopeful that the boys are on the right track now. We have just got back from the hospital where we found that Blake is now taking 8ml per hour continuous milk feeds through his NG tube and Max is still on 2ml per hour continuous (but at least they haven't stopped him again!) Max seems to be progressing a little slower and they are still getting aspirates back, but not huge ones and they have decided to put the partly digested milk back in through the tube after the aspirates (sounds gross huh!) because as one of the Drs said, if we are not feeding him he will never learn to digest it!

Today Blake weighs 2084g (up 52g since yesterday) and Max weighs 2000g (up 58g from yesterday) I am really happy with these weights as it is the heaviest they have been and you can actually see their little cheeks getting chubbier :) Both boys have a head circumference of 30cm now too!

We took the big boys up to the hospital today to see Max and Blake before we went off to the movies (Shrek the third - a good movie for those who might be interested! The kids loved it!!) Lachlan was so gorgeous to watch while he interacted with his baby brothers :) He can't wait to be allowed to have a cuddle but right now they are too vulnerable for that - hopefully it won't be long though. For now he just reaches through the ports in the incubators and strokes their legs and arms. He talks so gently to them and it's really sweet to watch. Unfortunately my camera batteries were dead but we got some really good video footage of them. Cody loved to have a chat with them too (hey, when doesn't Cody love a chat ;) LOL!) and he was dragging the foot stools up to the incubators so he could get a good look in.

I will try to add some more photos tomorrow night after I get some new batteries!