6 Weeks (GA: 34 Weeks)

Today is April 15 and the boys' corrected age is 34 weeks.  It is the day, you may recall, that Nanette was originally scheduled to have her c-section after her water broke.  Certainly, the last 6 weeks were not as we planned them to be, but these two babies have been so wonderful to have here with us.

Zeke and Gabe are now both down to 1/2 liter of oxygen per minute.  Zeke is completely off of caffeine and Gabe's was cut to half a couple days ago.  So except for vitamins, Zeke is completely off of all medicines.  Zeke had a follow up eye exam and he has stage 1 retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) in zone 3.  Apparently, this diagnosis is not too bad, stage 1 being rather minor, and zone 3 being in the periphery area of the eyes.

Nanette has been commuting to the NICU every day this week to work on nursing the twins.  They have made some progress, but it is going slowly.  It's a demanding role for Nanette since she has to essentially nurse twice: once with the pump to get all the milk out and then a second time to get the boys some practice.  It will be nice when a session of nursing the babies can be the real deal.