36 Weeks

Wow, hard to believe that it has already been six weeks since the night the girls were born. Ava has doubled her birth weight weighing in at over 6lbs. No more preemie clothes for this girl. :) Ava is doing great in the NICU and we are really hoping to have her home in the next week or two. Before she can come home she has to prove that she can eat on her own. She needs to take full feeds (51ml 8x/day for at least 48hrs). At this point she is taking in some full feeds and some partials. What she doesn't eat on her own she is fed through her tube feeds. It feels like it is so close, but so far away since there is no date set, we just have to watch how she does with her feeds. Here's to hoping our next update is that she is coming home. Obviously we don't want to have her home before she is ready, but we want her home the moment that she is. We are ready to start this next chapter of our life together, as a family. :)