Our little ladies were transfered to a private, twin room in the Vanderbilt Children's Hospital on Monday night. The new multi-million dollar facilty is quite nice and is comfortable for the parents, too. They are situated in Pod G of the 4th floor NICU and could be moved again (to Pod A) once they grow independently of the machines.

We were encouraged yesterday--both Sydney and Abigail were fed from a bottle. Abigail has been able to digest more milk all along and is receiving 25 mLs now; I was able to feed Sydney about 9mLs last night. Both girls are growing accustomed to the regular 3 hour feeding schedule that the nurses have them on. The routine: take temperature, check pulse in many different areas, switch O2 monitor from one foot to the other, clean cord stump, check air and IV lines, take off diaper, weigh baby, put clean diaper on, weigh dirty diaper, feed, and position to sleep a couple of hours--plus a bunch of other stuff that the nurses do without us knowing.

The nurses have indicated that if Sydney is squealling it is most likely a wet diaper that she is protesting. They said that she can't stand the wet diaper. Abigail loves to be swaddled and to be layed on her tummy after a feeding. I'll have to say--all of this still blows my mind.