Family Night at NICU

Weekends are family time at NICU, when siblings can come in and visit. Shmuli had a very nice time visiting his brothers, and even though it was quite late (9:30 when we left) he did great and impressed the nurses with his maturity. Both boys are doing so well! Twin A should be moving to an open crib sometime Saturday night, and Twin B will try out nippling a bottle .

It is so exciting to see how each day they develop a step closer to doing what they need to do to come home. In order for a preemie to go home, he needs to be breathing on his own, consuming enough food by bottle to gain a little weight each day, and be able to maintain his temperature in an open crib. We take all these things for granted in a full term baby, but when you are born 7 weeks too early, you need to learn all of these things at an accelerated pace! No wonder preemies often have very determined natures!