Thrush

Its been a long week. I feel like the days have gotten shorter or something, because by the time Brian and I finish work, go to the hospital, drive home, eat dinner, sterilize pump pieces, and wash baby clothes, its time to go to bed and start all over again. Oh well, it will soon be over and the fun will begin!

This week all the babies have developed thrush. Thrush is a common infection found in infants mouths that usually clears up without any treatment. However, ours are getting some cream to resolve things a little quicker as it can interfere with eating. Due to poor performance yesterday, Ella was downgraded to 3 bottles a day as not to create an aversion to the bottle due to her thrush. On the other hand, Slade has been doing great and has been increased to 3 bottles per day. Claire maintains her status as the laid back baby and is staying on the 2 bottles per day for now. Hopefully once this clears up all the babies will begin to increase in their bottle feeding tolerance again...

We have a lot of hats. We have so many hats that we've decided to bring a few to the NICU to give the babies a new less institutional look. Thank you to all of you that donated your used hats, we are having lots of fun with them!