Mia Pictures

Eskimo Kisses!

Are those cat chairs?

Cindy Cat...whose bed is that?

My hand is getting bigger!

Daddy & Daughter

Can't Wait To Weigh Her

Mia has been eating so well these past few days...in face she's been eating in the 500's every day, which is awesome, praise God! We've been very encouraged with how well she is eating. I'm excited to see how much she weighs on Friday when we go to LA to see the cardiologist. I was going to take her in yesterday, but Brad's truck is getting fixed so we only have one car at the moment and it seemed easier just to wait until Friday to see how much she weighs. We'll keep you posted!

She's Eating Well!

Mia has been eating so well these past two days. In fact, yesterday she broke her record of food consumed in a day...we were very excited. She was close to 510 cc's...which is 17 ounces. We've been very encouraged by feeding her every 2 hours. Thank you for praying! Please continue to pray for her weight gain.

More On Feeding

Mia has been doing really well today with her feeding! Praise God, thank you for the prayers! We've switched to feeding her every 2 hours, even if she is asleep and it seems to be working. We know it is going to be a lot of work to keep this up, but we are hopeful that as she continues to grow bigger she'll eat more at a feeding and do better. Please continue to pray for weight gain! I'll be taking her in on Tuesday to get weighed so we'll see how she's done this week.

The twins, Felicity & Charity, are doing well. Here is an excerpt from their mom's email:

Hello Family and Friends –

It’s Nancy – I am home and doing well and wanted to send you all a note to say thank you for your support this week. Thank you for the flowers/balloons, thank you for your prayers, thank you for all of the help in our home and with Trinity and thank you for the meals.

The amount of support has been staggering and we are humbled by the community and family we have around us. Thank you.

Felicity and Charity are doing well. Their doctor told me yesterday that they are doing better than most babies of this age. They are not on a respirator as they are both breathing on their own. They are on a C-PAP machine to force air into the lungs. They are receiving milk from me and are eating well – 2 teaspoons 3X/day at this point. As of this morning, Charity weighs 2 lbs., 2oz and Felicity weighs 2 lbs., 4 oz. They have both gone down from their birth weight, but that is very normal. They appear strong and maybe a bit feisty, the nurses tell me. We visit them each day in the NICU and covet all of your prayers for them to grow to full-term and come home in God’s timing.

Thank you for praying for all of these babies! It means so much to all of us.

Feeding

Mia continues to struggle with her feedings. I have a call in to her intestinal doctor to see about making the formula part of her feedings a bit more caloric. We were supposed to go to LA today, but the grapevine was closed yesterday and I didn't want to chance getting stuck on it, so we've rescheduled her appointment with the cardiologist to next Friday. We have a follow-up visit with our pediatrician on Tuesday, pray for weight gain! And so far there have been no other complications with her stool...it's been just fine, Praise God! Pray also for strength for us, I can't explain how exhausting it is feeding her every couple of hours, I'm so thankful for Brad, he's a great daddy and he takes really good care of me at night too...he'll make me get several hours of sleep together while he takes the feeding shifts a few times in a row. Thank you for continuing to pray for us, it means so much.