Precious Moments

Here's a few of my favorite pics so far. The boys had some vistors today (Grandpa King & Great Grandma King). Landon was sleeping the ENTIRE time, relaxing with his pointer finger out. Grant on the other hand was a wiggle worm and got Kangaroo care with Great Grandma looking on. Both boys are doing great and continuing to tolerate feedings well!

Landon-first visit up to Syracuse, 3 days old. Yes, that's Brian's wedding ring!!

Grant-3 days old. Thumb between his fingers.

Grant-5 days old. Possibly a lefty like mom?? Loves the pacifier and playing with his left ear.

Grant and daddy.

Grant-one of the "content" moments....looks like he's sun tanning!

Landon-always one eye open!

Landon-1 week old. Sad face after kangaroo care.

Grant-10 days old. Didn't want mommy to go see his brother. Love the hand on the knee! Yes, it's out of focus cause he's ALWAYS moving!

Grant during kangaroo care. Giving mommy tickles with his long fingers and loving having great grandma there to visit!

Kangaroo Care!!

Kangaroo care is when parents get to hold their tiny little babies in their shirt for skin to skin contact for 10 minutes up to 1 hour. I was lucky enough to start this with Landon on Monday and my mom was their to capture this great experience!

I think we'll call him our little "professor" with one eye open:)

A little history....

It's been both a quick and long couple of weeks. Who would have thought I'd be writing a blog about my babies in October??! To get everyone up to date that we may not have talked to personally here's our story. It was all smooth sailing until Thursday October 15th when I started getting cramps throughout the day. I decided to call my doctor's office around 3 that afternoon to get told to put my feet up and drink plenty of water. If I started getting cramps every 7 minutes I was told to be sure to call back. Well, it got to be about 4:30pm when I really starting noticing that yes, I was getting cramping every 7 minutes so I continued to monitor them and called again around 7pm. My doctor told me to head to the hospital. Little did I know I wouldn't be returning home pregnant. I was immediately put on complete bedrest. They gave me magnesium sulfiate to try and stop the contractions and my first round of steriods to help develop the babies lungs. There was no stopping that I was already 7 centimeters dilated. With Bri by my side and our parents/sister on the way we tried to hold out hope that we could delay the birth as long as possible. Long story short, I made it through another round of steriods, hip pain, dry mouth, and trouble breathing to early Monday morning before the contractions starting becoming more frequent. Baby A, Landon, was clearly on his way without much stopping. There wasn't time for an epidural and the doctor thought I would probably be fine anyway, thinking it would only take a couple of pushes before he was on his way out. This deemed to be the case as Landon Ethan was born alittle after 1pm weighing 1lb 13 oz and 13.5 in long.

Shortly after the doctor realized that Baby B had no intention of coming out so we decided to wait and see how long we could hold off. A long 5 hours later Grant Parker made his appearance, breech, at 1lb 12.2oz and 14 in. long.

Both babies were stabilized, ventilated, and rushed up to Crouse Hospital in Syracuse to start their long journey of growing.