Been a bit busy again the last couple of days. Work tends to get in the way every now and then, and I can't really use snow as an excuse as I can work from home.
The children have mostly been well behaved this week. Willow does tend to have a profound 'moment' once a day, where her heart rate drops, her oxygen saturation levels go right down, and she needs 'bagging'. Athough we're used to it now, it's still horrible to watch and we wonder when it'll stop happening. On the whole though, she is looking more like a little chunky baby every day, and generally improving.
They both had their eyes checked for ROP again yesterday. Stanley is still completely clear, but Willow has grade 1 retinopathy. This isn't surprising, as the vast majority of premature babies have it to some degree, and Willow in particular has been on stupid amounts of oxygen, which increases the chances. We're not too worried just yet, as it doesn't always develop further and they're being checked every week.
The boy Stanley is still a few steps ahead of Willow; he's now on 3 hourly feeds and seems to be tolerating them. And today when he was off CPAP, he was on zero oxygen - so basically just breathing air with no help at all. It's only taken ten weeks to get there, but we're getting there!
The original expected release date of New Years Day is looking less and less likely, but we're hoping it will be some time in January.
We used to wonder when the babies would come home compared to other world events. Back in August we were hoping that the babies would stay in the womb for longer than the Chilean miners were trapped underground. That didn't happen.
Then, we wondered if the home date would be before the X Factor finale, or The Apprentice 'You're Hired'. That's not going to happen either.
Surely though, we are not going to have to wait until England get to host the World Cup...
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