The plan had originally been to aim for today, but, and I kind of expected it we have been delayed. Spencer and Hudson have been on full sucking feeds since Friday and are doing well. They are on demand feeds with a 4 hourly limit and are ready to come home. Spencer is a really good feeder at the breast, but Hudson not so much. Where Hudson lacks with his breast feeding he more than makes up for by the way he chugs down his bottles. The little greedy guts gulps down his bottles so fast he is gasping for air, where Spencer keeps more of a steady pace.
Young Addison seems to be all that is holding us up from coming now. She feeds really slowly and is struggling to finish her bottles on her 4 suck feeds. The other 2 feeds she is still having by a nasal gastric tube. They do prefer that they are on all sucking feeds for 48 hours before they come so if we are aiming for Friday we are running out of time. So it is only a matter of waiting for it all to click together for her.
We are not prepared to bring them home separately as we would not be able to get in to visit Addison as the hospital is just that bit too far away, and the hospital is supportive of us in this decision.
In the last few days we have noticed that all 3 of them are starting to get much better head control and they are also starting to wake up a bit more. While they are looking around they have also started to give us some lovely eye contact too.
We are as ready as ever for our trio to join us at home and everything is as ready as I ever in visage it to be. So now we wait....
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