2 weeks and 1 day old

Riley & Gavin

Both of my boys are over 4 pounds now!!! As of Friday night, Gavin is 4 lbs 1 oz (1850 grams) and Riley is a whopping 4 lbs 5 oz (1975 grams). I got a taste yesterday afternoon of having to do this by myself. I arrived for their noon feeding and the nurse said ok, you need to take their temp, change diapers and feed them. HUH! Both?

Ok, here's the dilemma....if I feed Riley, what about Gavin and vice versa? It takes at least half an hour to feed each one....and isn't one going to be starving??? Ok, calm down, Grama T is coming. So while I was taking Riley's temp and preparing to feed him, my Mom showed up.

(Since they have been moved from the incubator to a crib, Gavin can now also be held by his grandparents, but they can't feed him. Riley gets this luxury once his last IV (for antibiotics) is removed tomorrow.)

Gavin was nice and awake for my Mom and she kept him occupied while I fed Riley. Once I was done with Riley, sadly he had to go back to the crib, but my Mom talked to him while I fed Gavin. They both did fairly well, except Gavin just konked out half way through his feed.

Last night when Glenn and I went, again the nurse (different one), said ok, get them ready for their 9pm feed. Well since I did everything at their noon feed, INCLUDING changing TWO nice poopy diapers, I figured Glenn should change both diapers and get them ready.

So he got Gavin changed, weighed (they only do at night) and then handed him over to me to be fed. Then he moved over to Riley, who with his IV is a touch more difficult. So Glenn took his temp (still a small body regulation problem), then began to change his diaper. Oh look nurse, only a small amount of...."Oh man.....he just pooped!". While Glenn had the diaper off, but still underneath, Riley pooped for his Dad. No gag reflex there, he was laughing too hard.

Gavin fell asleep on me again, and didn't even take half his bottle, but Riley took his whole bottle!!! So back we go this morning to see our boys and maybe have some visitors.

Our journey has begun, with poopy diaper stories, juggling feeding times and just telling you how amazing we think our baby boys are. We could talk to you for hours about our dog, now it will be our boys as well.

Have a great day.