Lilly and Davis' Story

Lilly Mae and Davis Anthony were born on Sunday, December 4th. They were born at 25 weeks and 5 days of gestation.

Lilly was born first at 9:56PM. She weighed 1 pound and 14 ounces and was 13.25 inches long. Her head was 24 cm in circumference (slightly smaller than a baseball).

Davis was born at 10:07PM... 11 minutes after his sister (something she'll never let him forget). He weighed 1 pound and 13 ounces. He was 13 inches long and had the same size head as his sister.

Both were taken to the NICU directly after delivery and are expected to be there until their original due date, March 12th (that's exactly 100 days in the NICU!)

Please keep these little ones in your thoughts and prayers and hopefully we will get to bring them home sooner!


Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Day 10 - 12/13/11

Davis taking a snooze... he had lots of visitors today!



Lilly copying her brother...


The grandparents and great grandma visting our little ones





Today is day 10 in the NICU (feels like day 4,674,369,810...) Lilly and Davis are doing well. Both are still eating 10 ml of food every 3 hours. They did start to fortify the milk today, adding calories and other stuff they need to get big and strong.

Lilly gained 10 grams since yesterday. She is still at 2 pounds... just 10 grams closer to 2 pounds and 1 ounce.

Davis lost a little weight... he's down to 1 pound and 14 ounces. Time to cut fruits and veggies from mom's diet... we're going straight fried chicken. A good dose of saturated fats, calories and all the other sweet goodness in fried foods will hopefully get into mom's milk and help our little guys to bulk up fast!!!

The babies got to meet their grandma, grandpa and great grandma today (mom's mom, mom's dad, and mom's mom's mom). I think we had the most popular babies in the NICU zoo! Lots of people oohing, ahhing and tapping on their little glass cages.

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