Life at my house has changed forever.

Both my sons are now at home. Born March 27, wife was 28 weeks (and 4 days) pregnant.

DS1 weighed 2 lbs 14 oz at birth
DS2 weighed 2 lbs 6oz at birth

DS1 was discharged at week 38 at 5 lbs 7 oz
DS2 was discharged at week 41 at 6 lbs
DS1 now weighs 7 lbs 7.5 oz
DS2 now weighs 6 lbs 4.5 oz

DS2 faced several problems. He was born at one hospital and 8 weeks later was transferred to a surgical hospital. In those first 8 weeks he had a bout with NEC (an intestinal infection), some respiratory issues and a few other "minor" problems. After further tests, surgery was taken off the table and he was put on an eat and grow regiment. It took 4 weeks for doctors to figure out a formula he could tolerate 8X per day and grow from.

Here are pics of the first day both kids saw each other for first time (it was Wed June 16).

Probably been a week or two or three since I last posted here on babies. Two weeks ago one of my sons was transferred to a different hospital. He was at a level 3 NICU, but that hospital does not do surgery. So he was transferred to another level 3 NICU and put on Surgical rounds to deal with his problems.

Two weeks later, no surgery has been done. We now have two kids in two different NICUs about 15 minues apart in same city.

Here are pictures:

DS1 weights 4.06 lbs and is going through the car seat challenge tonight. He will be strapped into his carseat for a couple of hours in the ICU and they need to see if he has any cardiac episodes as a result of the car seat.

DW and I will be staying at hospital all night on Thursday in a transition room with DS1. If he handles schedule and feedings well, DS1 gets to see his HOME!

DS1 ripped out his feeding tube today. This means he is on bottle feeds for the remainder of his stay. He had his first bottle on Friday, I think.

Here are baby pics for anyone interested.

My wife and I want to take pictures of our sons before they grow out of their incubators with objects which show relative size.

Wedding rings were suggested already by hospital- those pics will be taken tommorrow.

A friend gave us two build a bears which are each bigger than each of our sons, but the issue with the bears is
a) they cannot be put in incubator (not sanitary) and no one really knows how big a teddy bear is (you could buy a teddy bigger than me and I'm 6'1" 170#.

I was thinking maybe a coffee mug or similar. Any other ideas?

Like their father, my kids could not wait. My wife had an emergency C section on March 27 to deliver 2 boys. My wife was 28 weeks pregnant.

The good news is my wife came home. She had been in hospital since the 20th week of her pregnancy and our house was getting lonely for 8 weeks for me.

The boys are stable in the ICU at a great Neo-natal unit. Within 5 days they were taken off all breathing support (they are breathing on their own). Now we need to see kids grow.

DS1 was born 2 lbs 14 oz and was 2 lbs 11 oz when he was weighed yesterday.

DS2 was born 2 lbs 6 oz and was 2 lbs 3 oz when he was weighed yesterday.