It has been a week since we have had the twins weighed. Gage was 7.7 and Zoey was finally up to 6 pounds even. I can definitely tell they have put on a few ounces since then. We are having some growth spurts this week as well. He seems to be moving up to 4 ounces and she is moving to 3. So cute how she is a tad behind him in the growing process. She must not want to be the bigger child! I finally took them for our first outing without help yesterday.. Yep, all on my own. It was a challenge as I am not completely healed from the c-section so I did get a little sore. Luckily, it was a small adventure to try on a Maid of Honor dress. They slept most of the time.
As far as babies go, not much to share. We all know they eat, sleep (well mine don't sleep as much as some), and poop. Their sleeping habbits are better than others at night. Occasionally we get a 2 1/2 - 3 hour stretch, but for the majority of nights it seems every two hours. Since they keep upping their intake amounts of food we are hoping they will start sleeping longer stretches soon. Could you imagine feeding two newborns every night? Well, it happens in this house! The trick is to wake the sleeping baby when the others one wakes to eat. Hey, it seems bad to do, but if we didn't there would probably be no sleep in there at all!
Now to Derek... He seems to be doing okay. Some days are better than others. As I did blog about this previously on what was wrong with him. He had his second round of Rituxan last week and he felt better than the week before. Not as tired as the first time he did it. For those of you familiar with this medication, yes, it is an infusion used on cancer patients for chemotherapy. It was scary to think about him having to go through this, but his degree of infusions aren't going to cause hair loss and such. Mostly just fatigue. His eye seems to look better than others some days. It still is not cleared up and he has pains in his head still. We will continue to hope for his body to go into remission so we don't have blindness or worse (we won't consider this option). He has two more rounds left and we will figure things out from there. Still thanking the doctors in my head all the time for catching this before it was to late. Who knows how long we have before this kind of stuff reaches our major organs. It's the scariest thing we have ever had to deal with... I guess we finally got our miracle babies so that should show our strength as a couple and determination not to give up!! Love him soo much and keep hoping for the day he wakes up completely feeling better and not have to deal with any issues with his eye or any headaches. Heck, it would be a record to go more than 3 days without a bad morning.
Anyways, signing off for now. Will bring updates on Derek's progress (if there is any) when we know more. Here are a few lovely pics for those who haven't seen!!
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| Our new family |
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| Getting ready for our first outing |
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| Tummy time turning into nap time! |
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