So both girls are doing well.
Veronika left ICU and got her own above-standard private room yesterday morning. It even has a bed for me to stay in for the night if and when I want to (for example tomorrow night, Christmas Eve!) She is still a little slow moving (much better even since the morning), but fully mobile. Just no jumping up and down on the bed or running down the halls.
We went up to visit Rebecca in the NICU early this morning, and she had been taken out of the incubator overnight and was just in a warm bed, with blankets. We spoke to the doc and he wanted to send her down by Veronika, since she wasn't at any risk, just needed to gain some weight. He said that from today he expects that Becky will need to stay at the hospital about 7 more days. The idea being that as is typical, she has dropped a little initial weight and they want to make sure she is steadily gaining weight before she is discharged.
But just a little while after our visit she came down to the nurses station across the hall from Verča. Then from there we can roll her bed into the room to try and establish breastfeeding and for bonding and such. :) But the nurses will roll her back across the hall and let Verča get some rest at night. Maybe another day of this, and then she'll be non-stop in the room with Verča, whether she likes it or not! :)
So I think that's it for now.
The girls are doing quite well today.
The little one is slow to feed from the big one, but even that has improved dramatically in the last several hours.
More pics are up on the flickr site: www.flickr.com/photos/corybenson
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