Alyssa

11/1/10

Mason

10/4/10

Kyle

9/30/10

Update

Our first family picture (9/30/10)

It has been so long since I updated my blog. The babies are all at home and have been for awhile now, which should explain me not updating here.
Kyle was the first to come home on September 30th 2010. By the 19th of September he was getting all of his feedings by bottle and decided that he would remove his own feeding tube and the nurses never needed to put it back in. After Kyle was eating all of his milk from a bottle they kept him there for a little longer before he came home. The day that Kyle came home we moved into the Ronald McDonald house because it was a better environment for babies.
Four days later, on October 4th, Mason came home too. Once Mason was done with his antibiotics he started taking all of his mild through a bottle, he never had the feeding tube put back in. He only got a small amount at first; just ask him, it wasn’t enough. The first time they feed him a bottle he loved it and from then on he would scream all day because he wanted to eat more and they wouldn’t let him. When it was feeding time he would wait with his mouth open like a little baby bird. Life with both boys was fairly easy because John and I would each take care of one baby. Everything about that time wasn’t easy though. Kyle had really bad colic and would scream for hours every night and nothing would make him feel better. Then there was Alyssa and making time to go visit her. Once babies leave the NICU they are not allowed back in. It was harder to go see her because we could only go see her one at a time because someone had to watch the boys.
Throughout the month Alyssa was growing and finally about a week and a half before they let her go home they began to feed her from a bottle and on October 23rd they removed the tube. On November 1st around 11am John and I were laying in bed sleeping because the night before we hadn’t slept very much and the phone rang. I answer and Alyssa’s nurse says that we need to come pick her up asap because they are releasing her. We were told that they wouldn’t release her until she hit the 4lb mark and the previous night she only weighed 3lbs 9oz. We still don’t know why they decided to release her early but we didn’t complain. Plus, the last few weeks that Alyssa was in the hospital she looked so sad. I think that if she hadn’t come home with us when she did she wouldn’t have done as well. John stayed home until the end of December then he returned to work. Since then I have been taking care of the babies on my own during the day. This life is crazy but I love it.