One step forward and a few steps back!

This week has been very hard to go through! It is so exciting to see the babies make progress, but when they take some steps backward, it can be very emotionally and physically exhausting. Here are this weeks highlights and lowlights:
1. Highlight: Camden loves to drink from a bottle! After a few days of just sucking out a little from the bottle, she finally got the hang of it and drank an entire bottle. Emma started to try the bottle, but is still a little akward with the sucking and swallowing. She will get their eventually!
2. Highlight: Seeing the two of them snuggling! I left them one day to go get some lunch, and when I came back they were totally snuggled up next to each other. I think Emma just really loves her sister! (See the pictures below.)
3. Lowlight: Camden got a fever on Monday morning signalling that she had an infection. Preemies can get very sick with infections. She got moved out of the bed with her sister and into an isolette immediately. They ran millions of tests including a lumbar puncture...which for me was the scarest thing in the world. They put her on antibotics and she seems to be doing so much better! Come to find out yesterday, that she has a mild urinary infection.
4. Lowlight: Emma after being the strong one for a few days, woke up Tuesday night throwing up. She has a stomach infection of some kind, the results of those tests will not be back until later today. She was rushed across the hall back to the intensive care unit for monitoring. It is very serious to get any kind of stomach infection. They started her on anitbotics, and stuck a suction tube down her throat into her stomach to suction out all of the mucous and junk. Poor little baby...she looks so sad to be away from her sister. All of the xrays of her stomach that have come back so far, look like she is getting better very quickly. Only problem is that she will have to be without food for at least three days, and when she is ready for food again they will have to start her very slowly. It could be at least a week before she starts trying with a bottle again! AHHHH!
5. Lowlight: Both babies had to have blood transfusions yesterday afternoon. They went well and both should have lots of energy now to fight their infections.

Please keep our little ones in your prayers! We hope that all of our friends and family are having a very happy and healthy holiday season! We love you!