Addie - 5 lbs!!!
Charlie - 4 lbs, 3oz
36 Weeks means the girls should be "nippling" by now. They are doing a GREAT job with breastfeeding. I am super proud of them for that! (So are the nurses - they have to prepare fewer feedings now, because the twinkies are taking full feeds sometimes from breastfeeding!) The only issue is that they are NOT taking bottles, which is funny because they are champs with their pacifiers. Today they will be meeting with a speech therapist (I know, right?) for their 11 and 11:30 feeds. He or she will do some exercises with them to help them take their bottles. Dave and I will both be here for that so we can give them bottles when we need to. If "they" were just one baby, it would be different if that one baby refused to take bottles (Elliot). But the fact that there are two babies...that is just too much to HAVE to breastfeed every meal for two kids. In all honesty, I will breastfeed MOST meals, but we need more flexibility than that.
The doctors just came for rounds, and said the girls will go off their caffeine completely by Monday. (They can't go home for at least 7 days after they stop the caffeine.) Until Monday, they will continue on their caffeine, but they are not increasing the amounts based on their weights anymore, so they are slowly being weaned from it, too.
I was concerned that now that the girls are nursing for full feeds sometimes during the day that their weight gains wouldn't be enough. The doctor and nurses assured me during rounds that they look at gains over a week, and Addie is gaining an average of 37g a day and Charlie-girl is gaining an average of 30g a day, both of which are great.
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