day 42: still sick.

Well the kids are 6 weeks old today and have been fighting a cold since Sunday which they gave to me, So we all feel like crap and aren't sleeping and this really sucks. We have to put saline drops in their noses and plunge it out and put a humidifier in their bedroom. They have been running low fever. I have awesome kids... I know they feel like crap and they still haven't been insanely fussy at all. They are just eating more frequently because they can't breath.... so we went from every 3 hours to ever 1 and half to 2 hours. Anyways when we took them in to the pediatrician she was worried about Ramsey's breathing... even though he only has a head cold, he had very labored breathing. He was tightening his stomach. They did a blood test on him to see his white blood cell counts (they were out of the RSV test) the white blood count suggested that it is just a cold but to watch for difficulty breathing, fever over 100.4 rectally (oh how I love taking these temps) or increase in coughing and so forth... Today Ramsey seemed a little more congested and I got a load of snot out this morning but it was clear so that was encouraging. Besides that we are all sleep deprived.

So I did the math on the weigh ins on the kids... ummm they are health.

Ramsey had difficulty gaining at first but not anymore!!!!!

Birth weight: 4lbs. 13 oz. we struggled to get back there but did so when they were 2 weeks old with fortified breast milk.
At 3 weeks: 5lbs 14 oz. gained 1 lbs 1 oz in 11 days umm I think he is good with the weight gain now...
At 5 weeks: 7 lbs .5 oz gained 1lbs .5 oz in 14 days.

That is 2 lbs 3.5 oz in 25 days.


Arden had no difficulty as seen below.

Birth weight: 5 lbs 10 oz
At 3 weeks: 6 lbs 14.5 oz. (gained 1 lbs 4.5 oz)
At 5 weeks: 8 lbs 11.5 oz. (gained 1 lbs 13 oz. in 14 days)

That is 3 lbs 1.5 oz in 25 days.

Ok they are supposed to gain 8 oz. - 16 oz a month... They are rushing to catch up... they don't want to be the small kids. The sad thing is that they are the size of normal full term babies but feel so huge... I would have died if these kids would have came out of me at this size!!!!