7/9 morning update

John and I had another night with minimal interruptions. We are both still feeling pretty tired, but we are happy to get a few hours of rest. I am doing better every day and will get discharged today. I hope to head home for a bit and get a shower at home. One of us will likely stay here with them tonight, but I think we will start to alternate unless we can get one of the three sleep rooms they have here.

The babies have been doing well. Maggie continues to have apnea episodes, but she is doing great coming out of them on her own. Otherwise, they have been fairly stable except at their diaper changes and blood draws. Neither one of them likes to be jostled around that much, so it takes them a little while to calm back down.

Both kiddos got tested for jaundice overnight and both have high levels of bilirubin. This is normal as well and means they go under lights that make them look like they are in a tanning bed. They even have stylish eye covers similar to a tanning bed :)

Tomorrow they will do the first head ultrasound on both kiddos to check for bleeding. These are standard to do at 3 days and at 7 days. They said a lot of preemies will at least have some level of bleeding, but if it is small, it should reabsorb.

They took footprints for us overnight. Here is their sets of footprints next to John's hand. Maggie's are on the right side and Fin's are on the left.