"Be Prepared..."

Ahh the trusty ole' Boy Scout motto. Turns out it applies perfectly in our situation these days. With the girls progressing each day we are often told to be ready for changes. Changes thus far have been the feeding regime to greater boost their growth and development. Everytime we turn around there is a new way of doing things; 50% of the time it is just bumping up their intake levels the other 50% is changing the schedule to allow greater amounts of bottle feeds, breat feeds or nuzzle time. We show up daily with open minds to accomodate the new systems. So far the changes have had a mostly positive influence on the girls. The only set back so far has been that Alexandra's reflux issue has caused a step down in her quantity of bottle feeds. She seems to be doing far better now and is pushing to catch up with her sister.

The girls had their hearing tested this week and came out with flying colors. Not sure what the test was really since we were not there when it took place. We also took in a car seat for them to have their car seat screening done. The car seat screening is when the baby is placed in the car seat for about 40-60 minutes and their respiratory and cardiac systems are monitored closely for negative deviations. Annellice did very well with her test on Monday afternoon. They are going to wait on testing Alexandra until later this week.

We are still waiting and always prepared that Annellice may come home on Wednesday. The doctors will make that call mid-morning and notify us via the telephone. If we do not hear from them by the afternoon we assume that she will be delayed a day or two then. We are crossing our fingers now and hoping there is a stroke of luck coming our way finally.