Catch me if you can!

We've been taking pictures of the babies on their weekly "birthday".  It helps us remember the big changes from week to week -- this week we moved from plastic cribs to big cribs with mattresses that can be inclined. The weekly pictures also remind us how far the babies have come since June 27th!

The boys are both pretty laid-back, so it's fairly easy to get pictures of them that capture their faces, their length, and the number that tells us how old they are.  Grace is a different story...

The babies are all dealing with reflux, which is the primary reason they're all still in the hospital (and part of the reason Grace is so wiggly!).  Reflux makes them hold their breath (apnea).  When they hold their breath, their heart rates drop (bradycardia or "brady").  They're on monitors that are set to alarm when their respiratory rates and heart rates drop below a certain level.  In order to be discharged, they have to go five to seven days without having a significant apnea or brady event.  For the past week or so, the babies would get close to five days without an event, then they'd have a significant brady.  Each time they have a significant brady, the clock resets and we have to wait another five days.  This week they were all switched from breast milk to a really thick formula that is much harder to reflux.  So far, the formula hasn't eliminated the bradyies, but has reduced their frequency.  We're hoping that another week of growth and formula will sufficiently address these bradyies, because we're ready to bring our triplets home!