Tonight Slade is doing a sleep study at the hospital to gauge his breathing patterns as a final step to ensure he will thrive at a home environment. As long as he passes this test, we will go to the hospital to "room in." In the NICU there is a little area with a set of suites with beds for mom and dad, a crib for baby and a bathroom. The night before you take your baby home, you stay in this room and do essentially a trial run as if you were home, but with a nurse right down the hall. They say this helps the parents to feel more secure since it is the first time they have seen there babies not hooked to a heart and breathing monitor and it can be terrifying. We are definitely nervous not to have that reassuring beep to tell us when something is wrong, but I think we'll be OK. We brought his car seat up to the hospital today to make sure he can sit comfortably in it and it not affect his breathing patterns. So tonight should be our official last night without a baby around and we couldn't be more happy!!
The girls are doing well too and are slowly but surly progressing. They are both eating about 6 out of 8 bottles, which is getting closer to what they will require to start their countdowns. We are still hoping for before Thanksgiving, but as long as they are healthy we are happy.
Slade will have plenty of places to sit for now!
Claire's headband used to fit perfect...
Now its a tad too small...
how'd the sleep study go?
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