A lot of Mommy and Daddy time - for one kid at least

We had another really good day with Landry. We spent a lot of time at the hospital, and much of that time was spent holding our sweet baby girl. We got to hang out almost like normal people. Blake took a little nap in the recliner with his baby girl and I got to try to feed her. She ate really well for the speech therapist, but I think maybe I was too gentle with her. We were really surprised when they said a speech therapist would be in to feed her. I thought maybe she had a little extra time and fed the babies when she didn't have any speech therapy to do. It turns out (and many of you probably know this) that they evaluate the baby's suck, muscle tone and all sorts of things. It's very interesting. Landry ate 50 ccs in 8 minutes with her, and that was with a couple of breaks the therapist made her take. It looks like our baby isn't so coordinated when it comes to putting sucking, swallowing and breathing together. She recommended that they continue to bottle feed her in the hopes that she'll get better at it if she's given more of an opportunity. When I fed her she didn't act entirely interested, so I gave her back to the nurse who coaxed her to finish most of the bottle. Maybe we can get it together tomorrow. Blake just talked to the nurse on duty who said she did pretty well for her 8 o'clock feeding. She's maintaining her temperature well, and if she keeps that up she'll get moved into a regular crib later tonight.

We had to attend a discharge class this afternoon. It was basically a mini-class on infant CPR that's required before you can take your baby home. That sounded promising at first, but we still think it will be the end of the week before we get to bring her home and introduce her to her big brother.

We hated to give Landry up tonight since we were still able to hold her, but we were really anxious to get home to Camden. I got to thinking about it and realized that we haven't been here in the evening to put him to bed since last Wednesday. How sad is that? We're ready to get Landry home and find out what our new normal is!