Update ... Finally!

Bad blog poster.. bad.. I have been remiss in my posting duties.. apologies to all.

OK.. now that we are back home, I'm starting to think that Edmonton might not have been all that bad. We have been slammed back into the reality of both our jobs, Sam visiting, Christmas shopping & parties, and a 3 month backlog of house projects. And we don't even have the twins at home yet! Can't really complain though.. we are having a blast, and it's so great to be back.

Sam was out last week and it was his first time seeing the babies (besides on the ultrasounds). He was quite a proud older brother, and loved holding them and touching them in their crib in the hospital. (He had predicated that we would have a boy and a girl)

They are both on room air now, no supplemental oxygen at all. Dillon is now bottle and breast feeding, so they removed his feeding tube yesterday. For the first time ever he has no tubes sticking into him! He still is wearing the sensors for vital stats, so there are still a few wires to deal with, but he is living without any medical assistance! Madeleine still has her feeding tube in. They have run it through her nose, so that it does not get in the way of her trying to bottle or breast feed.

Dillon is doing very well on the breast and the bottle. He can now pull a full feed from either. He is taking in about 70ml per feed, and feeding every 3 hours, or 8 times a day. That works out to about 1/2 a liter of milk per day he is consuming. Madeleine is still a week or 2 behind Dillon on the feeding, and is still primarily being fed via her tube. She is learning the bottle, and we are hoping to see some progress this week.

Dillon now weighs in at 6lbs, and Madeline is 4lb 15oz. A long way from Sept 9th!

Will try to get some updated pics of the giant babies this week. Here are a few shots of Sam holding his siblings.