It was a LONG night…but both the preemie babies are still with us today. Just taking it hour by hour right now. They haven’t lost any weight which I’m thankful for, they haven’t gained any either but that’s ok too. I’m just happy they are maintaining their weight right now.
They currently take 1ml each per feed. Their stomachs are so small I’m afraid to try and give any more. So frequent small feedings it is. The little boy (the bigger one at 42g) does want to try to latch to a nipple but after a couple sucks he gets so tired and forgets to swallow and it’s just not safe to feed him that way. So I’m sticking to tube feeding them.
I can’t take their temperatures because their butts are literally too small for a thermometer. Which is driving me crazy not knowing their rectal temp. I mean you can scan them but I prefer a rectal temp. So I’m going by how they feel to the touch and how they are responding in the incubator…and how past preemies have been that I’ve actually been able to take the temp of because they’ve been slightly bigger than these two. Their incubator is set at 100, the highest it’ll go. They also have a squishy warmie in there. I call it their water bed. I like these for adding them to the incubator better than the hard heating discs. The little girl rarely ever leaves her water bed..the boy will occasionally hop off it and then crawl back on.
So that’s the update for now…just feeding and keeping warm. Please keep sending tons of prayers for these tiny babes.