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Those poor people that had to put up with Gram's Stansel stories.

The girls had a relatively good day, despite Rachel having an episode of Acid Reflux that caused her to drop her heart rate. Dr. Thompson put her on anti-reflux medications. The meds seem to have helped. Acid reflux is very common in preemies and we were told that Haley will have it too. Haley's feeds are being increased and so the acid reflux will show up as her feeds are increased even more. We had a fun time sponge bathing Rachel for the first time today. It was so awesome to bathe her and feel like we are a part of her care in some small way though we both were nervous as we didn't want to hurt her in any way. Doing basic baby care is so new to us. We are learning! Rachel is such a wiggly worm which made bathing her a little difficult, but together we did it. We will become pros real soon. We bought some preemie clothes for the girls this past weekend and tonight we were able to put a little outfit on Rachel after her bath. She looked so cute! The outfit was still a little big for her, but she will grow into them. Haley will get her bath later and her nurse will put a little preemie outfit on her after her bath. Haley had another eye exam this evening and she will need the same laser eye surgery her sister Rachel had last week. It will be done either Monday or Tuesday. We again hope it will go well and Haley will be ok.

Mommy dressing Rachel



Rachel looking cute in her new clothes




Haley at her post



Haley getting assessed by her nurse

They went out a bought clothes? Didn't they have some already in that baby storage room? Thy had premie clothes there too. I remember Thomas saying something about that in one of the televised interviews. Guess not to their liking.

Those poor Stansel babies. They have experienced every complication/worst case scenerio for premies. Heart surgery, brain bleeds, acid reflex, infections, ROP,etc. The other four obviously died from premature complications. The only thing they haven't had thus far is NEC. Let's hope they don't have to deal with that.

You forgot 'horrid clothes from Walmart' in the list.

LOL! Maybe they picked the most horrid outfit on purpose. So people would feel sorry for the little girls and send them better stuff. They are crossing their fingers for Gymboree and so forth. LOL! Who knows. You know the "fans" will tell them it's a cute outfit though.