Day Three

First let me begin with last night…food was introduced to them for the first time! They gulped that up so fast. Since last night they have doubled their intake. So as far as today…today was a major step in the right direction. We received some good news during our morning touch-time (diaper changing time). Both Haylee and Rylee were going to come off their breathing tubes and be switched to a less intrusive breathing apparatus that pushes oxygen thru their noses. I apologize for not giving the medical terms for all of these things, it’s been a large dose of information given to us and to keep up with the technical terms has been difficult. So after lunch they switched them out and we were able to hear their voices with some faint cries now that a tube is not pushing on their vocal cords. It was so amazing to finally hear them. Since the removal of the tubes they continue to breath well on the new machine, so much so they were able to introduce pacifiers to them! They love it. We couldn’t have been happier.

Ashley was discharged tonight as well. On one hand its great we are finally out of the hospital but sucks that we are no longer a hallway away from them. This is going to be one of the hardest things to deal with. This is going to be a long road but we can already tell our girls are fighters and want to get home to Mommy and Daddy as soon as possible! Stay strong girls!