Two Tough Twins: Pushing 3 lbs

So since my last sad email things have calmed. Cameron is progressing beautifully. He started sessions of oxygen only at a low flow yesterday and is already up to 4 hours on his cannula, 8 hours on the Cpap and so on. He does GREAT on just oxygen! If he keeps this up by the end of next week we may be starting to bottle/breast feed. I can't believe it! He is 2lbs 12oz. His next eye doc appt is Wednesday so we will know how quickly his ROP is moving and if he might need laser surgery to correct the issue.

Brody is 2lbs 14oz!!! 3 lbs here we come!!! He is doing great since going back on the vent-fortunately his lungs look great but his throat is still pretty swollen. They will probably look to extubate again after Thanksgiving. Right now we are working on getting him bigger overall so that his airway will grow as well and hopefully open up enough for him to breathe on his own. An ENT will be there when they decide to extubate to scope him to make sure that there is nothing wrong with the actual structure of the trachea/vocal cords that might be causing a problem. The doctors seems pretty confident that it is just swelling but as with everything else, these guys are just so unpredictable. Inevitably this will delay him coming home pretty drastically as he is already a few weeks behind his brother and we are planning to wait a few weeks still to give him the chance to catch up.

After a long overwhelming trip to Babies R Us today I figured out the diaper equation. 10 diapers a day per baby=20 diapers total * 30 days a month WHICH BRINGS US TO A GRAND TOTAL OF 600 DIAPERS A MONTH!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!