amazing day in the nicu

after school today, i took my little jaunt to the nicu to visit with the girlies. one of our favorite nurses was with them and, in true meghan fashion, she was a sing-song of bubbliness :-) it was a super-dee-duper visit!

first of all, she footprinted the girls. at 48 days old, they finally got their sweet little feets printed :-)




then, both girls got their baths and i got to snuggle with each one during their feeds. quinn's oral tube was replaced with a nasal tube, and lyncoln's will be replaced at her next feeding :-)




during quinn's bath, she was totally wireless! as in no wires and no tape on her face and no nasal cannula! she was a rockstar breathing ALL BY HERSELF for the entire bath, weighing and footprinting! when she was hooked back up, her o2 sats were still at a 96 :-) i so loved stroking her cheeks and playing with her developing double chin sans tape and tubes and wires :-)






i think that the girls have a little game going on. earlier in the week, we had predicted that they would hit their weight milestones this weekend. well, today, lyncoln weighed in at 2lbs15.5oz... a mere HALF AN OUNCE away from 3 pounds! and quinn weighed in at 3lbs15oz- one ounce away from 4lbs! so, perhaps tomorrow, as we clebrate their 7-week birthday, we shall also be clebrating their weight milestones!!! however, we got to dub today "birthweight double day times two"! today, both girls officially doubled their birthweights :-)

when c visited a little later on, super-meghan decided to give the girls some sister bonding time :-) at first they were unsure of the whole thing, but they quickly settled into each other, and, quinn, with her love of all things booger, began to suck on lyncoln's nose :-)





i am so in awe of our girls. they truly are miraculous... and the magic that our nurses do is simply beyond words...