Moved into a new nursery!

Today was a big day for our new family - Abby and Emily were upgraded to the Continuing Care Nursery which is the next step on the girls' way to coming home! The girls just need to continue to grow and eat in order to be released. At rounds this morning the doctor said that he thinks it won't be much more than a week until Abby and Emily get to move home with us as long as they keep up the good work.

I was discharged from the hospital today, but decided to take advantage of the hospital's free boarding program so that I could stay close to the girls. The hospital has some rooms available to parents of babies in the NICU at no cost to the families in order to allow the parents to be as involved as possible with the care of their children. While I was very thankful for this opportunity I quickly realized that the beds were not going to work for me as my abs are extremely uncomfortable from the surgery and I'm unable to lie flat at this point. Having to leave the girls at the hospital alone was really a really tough decision, but it is nice to know that they are being taken care of by the great nurses at UMass. To help me feeel a bit better, Byron will be dropping me off at the hospital each morning this week so I can spend the day with the babies.

Here are the girls in the awesome shirts that Justin and Lisa bought for them - all the nurses talk about how cute the shirts look! Thanks guys!










Here's a picture of Emily asleep on Byron's lap. She seems to love snuggling with him.



Now that the girls are in the Continuing Care Nursery we are able to hold them together and take pictures - tomorrow I'll try to take some so that everyone can see how surprised we were to find that they look VERY similar!