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| Cooper is 5 pounds today! Brinley is now 1/2 pound behind him which is actually pretty close for twins - most twins have a pretty big weight disparity.
We are now in what the doctors/nurses call the boring period. There was a lot of activity when we first got in the NICU - new developments every day. Now it's slowed down, and we're in the "feeding and growing" stage - focusing on trying to nurse and just gaining weight. So there will probably be lots of days in the next couple weeks with no words, just pictures!
I think the nursing isn't going well, but everybody assures us that this is normal. We still try twice a day and they seem to like trying but they just don't get how to latch quite yet, but at 35 weeks they still aren't expected to. We've been told it will seem like they're never going to get it, and then all of a sudden they'll just get it. It just has to do with their brains not quite being developed enough to put it all together at this point. So we'll keep trying...we are both getting a little frustrated as well with being in the NICU - we're really ready for them to come home, and are getting tired of going to the hospital all the time!!!
Their personalities have started to change a little bit - where Cooper was the more fussy one, it's now Brinley who has her fussy moments - really just when she's hungry. We can definitely see the effects of their rigid schedule, and when she doesn't get her feeding exactly on time, she gets really pissed and let's everybody know! While Cooper doesn't hardly cry anymore, he has become very expressive, and makes lots of good faces. He has a really good grumpy face that he uses a lot - he doesn't cry, he just seems to be giving us dirty looks sometimes! When Brinley is happy and content, she has the most peaceful face, and it won't change at all for hours at a time while she's sleeping.
In other exciting news, we've found a woman to come to our house and watch the babies once I go back to work! We thought with two and Brandon going to work early so I'd be alone in the mornings with them, that it'd be much easier to have someone come to our house instead of taking them to a daycare center or in-home daycare. And it will actually be cheaper than going somewhere.
      
If it seems like sometimes they are in multiple outfits in pictures, it's not because they are from different days. They are the same day - just like full-term babies at home, they poop/spit up on their clothes a lot and require lots of outfit changes!
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