Progress!!!

Just a little update:

Both boys are off of their IV's!!!! Yay! So happy not to see an IV in their head or hand today and have one less cord attached!
Also, the temp in their isolates is down to 84.5 and 85.3 (ish). That is down from 97 when they first arrived at the NICU.
Case is now taking 51cc of milk and will reach his goal amount at his 2 AM feeding tomorrow morning. Crue is up to 49cc and will reach his goal amount at his 8:30 feeding tomorrow morning. So far they are both tolerating the increased amounts and although they do get tired and sometimes struggle a little to finish, they are in fact finishing...so that's all that matters!! Case is down to 5 lbs even and Crue is down to 5 lbs 5 oz, but they should start to come back up once they are taking in their goal amounts each feeding.
I get to give them their first sponge bath tomorrow since their IV's are out and that will be fun. Oh yah, and their bilirubin #'s continue to increase, but they are not high enough they have needed to treat them with the light yet.
My Mom had our other little ones until today, which was so great to help us adjust a little and help me heal a little. Scott will go back to work tomorrow and take Haddyn to Burley Tuesday, while Stets will stay with me in Pocatello. We'll adjust one kid at a time, but I am sure going to miss them :( My hubby is definitely my stronghold. He is amazing.
Thanks for all of your thoughts and prayers...we have felt them and appreciated them. So far, so good with these strong little guys and we just keep praying they will continue to do well and come home soon and complete our little family. (That is not so little anymore!)

Case in clothes!


Crue being burped--apparently he had a better idea of fun at that moment :)

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Our heaven sent baby boys...

Finally back together...Case-Crue



One happy mommy!



Case says "What up?"






Crue says "Sleep, that's what up."

Kelli and Meds=A Foggy Daze

So, apparently I was a little more out of it on Tuesday than I realized. I talked to numerous people that I don't recall having any conversations with and also got a few pieces of information a little bit "off" in my early morning post :)

We have officially named the boys: Case Jeram Moulton and Crue Scott Moulton.

Case was baby A born at 7:38 am and weighed 5 lbs 12 oz at 18.5 inches long.

Crue was baby B (lodged in Mommy's ribs) born at 7:40 am and weighed 6 lbs 0 oz at 20 inches long.

So, there is the updated and CORRECT info :) Needless to say, I don't handle medication well. It was a very stressful day for all of us and not one we ever want to repeat. We are so thankful that our sweet babies are doing so well and for all of the help we had from the doctors, nurses, family, friends and our ward. Haddyn and Stetson are very excited to have new brothers, but don't fully understand why life is the way it is right now.

Mommy is slowly recovering and has decided that I would rather deliver twice than have a c-section. However, I'm thankful we had a the option we did in the situation we were in.

The babies are now eating and they have their intake increased by 2cc per feeding at this point. They both were able to nurse at one feeding today (Crue took 10cc and Case nursed 6cc) and they are both tolerating everything well. Without any hang-ups, they should have their IVs discharged within about 3 days.

That's the update for now. I'll post pics soon. I got to hold them together for a bit today. It was amazing. Our family is so blessed! Happy late 4th Birthday to my sweet Haddyn too--her bday was yesterday. What a birthday present to get one baby brother for your 2nd birthday and two baby brothers for your 4th birthday!!! NOT planning on continuing that trend!

They're Here!!

Well, due to an unforeseen infection and more preterm labor, our little sweeties arrived by c-section yesterday morning on October 18, 2011 at 7:38 and 7:40 A.M. They weighed 5 lbs 11 oz and 5 lbs 14 oz and I just realized I never did hear a length. They were flown out of Burley to Pocatello to the NICU because their little lungs weren't quite performing up to par. Before Scott left them to come home they were off all oxygen, breathing fine on their own and will start some feeding later today w/ my milk I've been pumping. This little guy is Case and the next pic is sounding like he's gonna be Crue, but we still aren't 100% on the middle names for sure. Either way, we can go with handsome #1 and #2. They look a lot alike in person and it ended up being one placenta, so it looks like they may be identical, but the placenta will be biopsied either way and then we should know for sure. Just FYI :). Here they are (top 2 Case):

Baby b (Crue we think):

My Big Preschooler!

So, although she will be in preschool next year too, my baby girl started her first year of preschool this year!!! She was pretty darn excited to be in school. It's touch and go from week to week if she will tell you she LIKES school or not, but overall, she has had a lot of fun. She realizes that Stetson stays home with Mommy while she goes to school and that tends to cause a few waves, but just wait until she has 3 brothers at home and she's begging to leave the house 5 days a week for two hours instead of just 3. Ha,ha!
Here is a pic of her FIRST DAY as a little preschooler!!! She actually smiled--YAY!

Bed Rest

Yes, you read that title correctly. I am now on bed rest. It is awesome. And I am lying. ha,ha
So, I slept horrible on Sunday and didn't wake up feeling any better on Monday morning. I was having contractions, but I'm always having contractions, so I didn't pay much attention. I went to my appointment on Monday morning and they hooked me up to the monitors, as they do twice a week now. This time however I was having a lot of contractions and they could not get a solid reading on baby b. After checking me they discovered I was dilated to a 1 and my doc sent me over to the birth center to get things stopped. After spending all day in the hospital and having 3 doses of medication to stop my contractions, they hadn't stopped and although I was not comfortable, I was still only dilated to a 1. The shot they gave me did help slow my contractions down to every 20 minutes instead of every 10 and I was sent home on bed rest until 36 weeks, which is a week from Thursday.
As big of a pain in the tush (literally) as it is to be on bed rest and need people to come in and help me with the kids through the day and have Scott do EVERYTHING (which he is amazing at), I am feeling quite a bit better and my contractions have slowed down a lot...as long as I stay down. My luck is that they will lift all of the restrictions at 36 weeks and have to induce me at 38 weeks. Would NOT be comfortable for me, but would be even better for the babies. I'm confident that whatever needs to happen will happen, but I really want these little guys to stay in until at least 36 weeks so I will just be chillin' on my hind end for a while.
I haven't taken another belly pic, so I'll get on that soon. I lost our camera charger so at the moment we are without a camera. Yah, prego brain?? Not sure that big of an oops qualifies under the pregnancy excuse, but it's the only one I have. We did Haddyn's birthday party last month so that she would be able to have one so I will get pics posted of that soon too. Hope everyone is well!!!