Beautiful baby eyes...

Tonight my mom got to change Amelia's diaper,take her temperature etc....Amelia is under the jaundice lights again and so she has to wear her "sunglasses" while under the lights. Anyway, while mom was changing her she kept pulling on the little goggles until she pulled them off! Then she opened her eyes wide and looked around like "Finally!! I've been waiting to see what's going on around here." The nurse got her out and gave her to me to do kangaroo care and she kept opening those little eyes and looking right at mom and I. It was so precious. She is also rooting a bit..moving her head all around and making sucking sounds with her mouth when I hold her. Sometime in the next few weeks we'll start doing "non-nutritive" breastfeeding where I pump and then hold her/him and let them start practicing sucking. Then once they get used to that I'll start letting them try to breast feed once every 12 hours(they will continue getting regularly scheduled tube feedings), then twice every 12 hours, then on demand whenever I am there, and then before we go home I will "room in" at the hospital and feed round the clock.
Anyway, here is our little Amelia looking at her mommy and her grammy:)


The babies were doing well today. They did follow up ECHOs on both Amelia and Sam and their PDAs are improving, meaning they are getting smaller. Hurray! Our prayer is they will continue to improve without a need for medication.

Those of you praying for baby Gavin will want to know that he has pneumonia.His mom said that his xray looked better today..but poor buddy, it is just one thing after another. Thanks for praying for this sweet family and please do continue. I can tell she is so encouraged that so many of you have started to pray for them.

Guess that's all for now. Hope you all are doing well, Jen