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Today’s Events

I think today was a good representation of what our daily lives will be like this summer and for the next 5- 20 years. Lets take a peek.

12:00 am – Meredith woke up crying. Becky (Angela’s mother) has been with us all week and helping out with Meredith and was the first to respond to her cries. I heard on the intercom that things weren’t normal. She was sick. Vomited all over and got it everywhere. Becky, the first responder, took the brunt of this event. God Bless her. I took Meredith to the other room as Becky continued to clean it up and change out the bed. She seemed to be comfortable so I put her back to bed to only be woken by her cries again. She got sick again and thus another change of clothes and bedding. I went down and started the laundry as Becky got her back to bed. All the while, Angela sat at my desk in the basement and listened in as she pumped for some much needed breast milk.

8:00 am – Meredith is up. We try for something very simple for breakfast to easy her. Toast sounds like a great idea. She just played with it.

8:05 am – Breakfast over as she threw all of her breakfast on the floor as she played with it. Dad is upset as he didn’t get his coffee made this morning. Diaper change and dressed for the day. Mommy pumped again.

8:30 am – Becky took over so that I could update the site and return emails.

9:30 am – Mommy paid bills and I went to mow the yard as it was a couple days overdue. I really like to spend time in my yard. This is my release where I don’t have to think about anything and I’m away from everything. It isn’t work if its mine and I’m not for hire. I’ve got enough to do.

12:00 pm – Angela and I are finally done with our little projects and cleaned up for the day. We’ve said our goodbyes to Meredith (which were difficult for Angela today) and were on our way to Children’s in Minneapolis.

1 pm – We arrive at the NICU. We got some great reports and Angela took to holding Alex quickly as he was the only one she didn’t get to yesterday.

Did you really get a good look at that picture of my bride? She was so beautiful today. Its been so long since I’ve seen a smile like that. I couldn’t be happier. To see a few more pictures from today, click here. We had a little more time today compared to yesterday so Angela and I did some Kangaroo Care with the kids. Kangaroo Care is skin to skin contact with the kids as we hold them. This is common with preemie babies. I was skeptical, but it seems to work really well today. While Angela was with Alex, I decided to just jump in with both feet and took on Brooklyn and Lauren at once. During our visit today we got some great news. Here are the stats on the kids:

Brooklyn – off all air support, is responding very well to feeding on the breast milk by a drip feeding via a feeding tube through the nose.

Lauren – als off all air support. Lauren still has her venous line in her belly button. She couldn’t keep an IV and they couldn’t place a PIC line in her. This venous line is an infection risk and she needs to get to full feedings w/o the assistance of additional IV fluids asap. Otherwise, she’s awesome.

Alex – still on the nasal canuals every other two hours. That’s the tubes in the nose, but doing awesome otherwise. He’s also tolerating the feeding very well.

Emma – She is less than 2lbs now and has been for a couple days. That’s ok and she’s awesome. She and all of her siblings gained weight yesterday. She is also on her own with no breathing support.

Madeline – Madeline is also doing well with her feedings. She has the PIC line in place and is doing well over all.

Lastly, all of quints had brain ultrasounds today. This is common and we expected it. All of them were clear. They were looking for brain bleeds that are common in preemies, but we’re ok. Prayers answered. The attending neonatologist tells us every day that when it comes to bell curve of quintuplets, we’re sitting at the very top of the curve.

4:30 pm – home for an awesome dinner prepared by Becky. Meredith didn’t eat anything again, and continued to not feel well.

8:45 – Sit down to look at email and update the blog.

10:00 – I’m still typing and I haven’t uploaded the photos yet. I hope to get to bed in the next hour or two. There’s still more laundry to do and Angela needs to pump another time or two.

We’re living the dream and its just another day in paradise here at the Tille house.

Until next time.