Hyperfertile Infertile: Day 5

Lydia is doing awesome today! She is down to room air entirely and never had to be turned up at all in response to a desat. She also only had maybe 3 or 4 desats all day and recovered from them quickly. This afternoon, the nurse started turning down the flow of her oxygen, which is really what needs to happen before she can come off, and her sats remained stable. I am very hopeful now that she will be off the canula quickly since she seems to have really turned that corner!

In other news, both girls are still tolerating feeds well. Lydia was up to 38 ccs per feed today and Sophia remained at 33 ccs (it's based on weight). Neither had anything other than a small residual here or there, and mostly it was all clear. In fact, they think that they are starving and we had to feed them early multiple times! They tend to wake up 30 minutes early, hungry and rooting around like starving babies. It's so cute! Sophia took one feed by bottle while we were there and inhaled 12 ccs in a minute or two, and then got too tired to keep going. It's a good sign, though, that she can take that much that quickly. As soon as she gets more stamina, she is going to suck down those bottles like whoa. I nursed Lydia one feed and she has an awesome suck! It's really strong and, while she is a little harder to latch then Sophia, she is great about not popping off. It seems like both of them are very interested in nursing and food in general, which is such a relief after Alice and Charlotte, who are still often challenging to feed and certainly were back in their NICU days!

Today ended up being a little crazy. We spent the morning home with the kids and then headed to the NICU at 9:30, which was good timing since the girls were heading to preschool in just a few minutes. We hung out there feeding and soothing babies (which is becoming a full-time job now that they are much more awake and actually want to be held/entertained!) until 3:30, when the postpartum care lady came by to check on my incision. Incidentally, I thought that it was awesome that she came to the NICU instead of making me go there! Anyway, she took one look at it and said that I needed to go see my MFM because it is open in a few spots, oozing stinky yellow gunk, and generally isn't healing well. She called them and, since it was the end of the day, they literally wanted me to go over right then... which happened to be right as our nanny and the girls got there to see me and the babies AND right as the babies were going nuts with starvation (very early, again!). Robert had to take Emilia to ice skating, so I ended up having to just get the nurse to come feed both of the babies, and pack up my stuff really quickly, and then take our nanny and the girls to my appt. Phew.

One of the MFMs looked at my incision and said that she can't tell whether it is infected but she wants me to come back tomorrow when Dr. Wall will be there so that he can check it out. She cleaned it out (which was not comfortable at all since she took the steri strips off and really dug around in there), and got tons of blood and gunk out, and then put new strips on. Gross. Just... gross.

I also saw a LC today who told me that it's ok to go ahead and try herbal supplements to increase my supply now, but to keep waiting for another 5-7 days to start things like Reglan. Honestly, it seems like my supply is doing pretty well on its own right now, but with two babies to provide for, I guess that pretty well isn't enough. I went form pumping 186 ccs Sunday to 260 ccs yesterday to 362 ccs (12+ ounces) thus far today and that is with one more pumping session left before midnight. My supply is definitely increasing pretty steadily, but I'm going to try More Milk Plus since Fenugreek alone didn't work for me at all last time.

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