Baby is not coming home yet...Wah!!!

Well, here we go again. Don't get your hopes up until you get the baby home. The doctor put the feeding tube back in for Chantrell. He wants her to drink 70 ml in her bottle at every feeding and she can only do 40 to 50 ml. She gets tired and stops sucking. So, the last part of the milk has to be fed through her tube. It is a little set back, but I guess I am getting used to it. I have to be patient and just help the babies drink from the bottles and hope they get enough down to gain weight. The nurses say it just happens overnight. The babies get the whole suck, swallow, and breath pattern down and then they can take more in their bottle. They are still only 36 weeks old, and we were told not to expect them home until their due date, which is June 7th. Hopefully, one or both will be home when Debbie comes to visit. Otherwise, it will be visits to the hospital which is not as much fun as having them home, all to ourselves. Barry and I went to the hospital the other night and watched as the nurse gave the girls their bath. We watched and learned how to do it. It is pretty easy. We both have experience giving babies baths. Sometimes the nurses think that we don't know how to do anything. I am still pumping breast milk and bringing in little bottles for the girls to drink. It makes me feel like I am doing something that nature intended me to do. I have some more pictures to post of the girls. I will put them on the blog soon. For now, it's late and I have been reading everyones blogs and catching up on comments.