So, I felt like things were going really well. Valera has been eating her whole feedings and then some. She is eating from a bottle so we are able to see how much she is getting. Kilee is nursing and its hard to see how much she is getting beacuase we dont weigh them every time any more. They just weigh them after the test to see if they gain or loose weight but she has been nursing for the same amount of time that she did when we were weighing them every feeding. Anyway, with that being said. I went to do a feeding this morning and the nurse said that they had lost weight. Kilee lost 70 grams and Valera lost some where around 50 grams.
One of the reasons they lost weight is because they arent getting the extra calories every 3 hours. Especially Kilee. They can loose weight when they have to use more energy but I am really confused with all of it especially with Valera. She was eating more than she was supposed to. I can see how Kilee will loose weight because she is just getting my milk. No other extra calories like she was before. I was discussing these things with the nurse and her and I went to talk to the pediatrician to see what she thought about all of it. She said that she would let us still move to the next step but we will need to watch their weight close and that she cant promise that we will go home tomorrow.
I am pretty sad about the whole deal. It seems like you takse 1 Step forward and 3 steps back sometimes. Just pray that they gain some weight today.
The next step we will be putting us in a room with the babies hooked up to the monitors and oxygen that they will be going home on.
We will be working hard to get them to eat extra tonight....
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