My first cousin
Genny and her hubby JJ welcomed triplet boys last week on the 21st. She was such a trooper and made it to 31 weeks before baby C decided he was better out than in. Once she went back for her C section they had all three babies out within the SAME minute. They were delivered in ABC order. When they were a few days old Rusty, my parents and I got to go meet them. -Side note, I'm really glad we got our Whooping cough vaccines early so we didn't have to wait to see them in the NICU. All of the boys are a little jaundice so they had the super cool eye masks and blue lights in their isolets. They also have feeding tubes, and the other wires you see are for temperature (the gold heart sticker) and vitals monitoring.
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This is Asher "Baby A" he was 4 lbs and 16.5 inches Seriously, look at the size of his head compared to that paci! So tiny!
This is Brooks "Baby B" he woke up and watched us the entire time we were there. He was the biggest of the bunch at 4' 11oz and 18 inches. He kept wiggling to the edge of the isolet and had his feeding tube stretched to its limits.
This is Genny and Caden "Baby C" She hadn't been able to hold him out of the isolet yet so she was loving this chance to hold him-ish as they changed his diaper. Baby C is who got the party started. He was the smallest of the three weighing only 2'14oz. and 14 inches long. Can you see his eyes? He was awake a lot while we were there too.
Preemies are super sensitive to all kinds of things, so the room lights were kept low, you talk quiet and when they need to be comforted you can't stroke them like you would a normal newborn. You do this technique that I will now call "the Baby Sqwash". You take their feet in one hand, and their head in the other and sorta sqwish them into themselves. How do I know so much about the "Baby Sqwashing?" Because I got to settle Mr Brooks down.
Asher slept the whole time we were there but when Caden was being changed Brooks started fussing and his heart rate shot up, so since I was the closet I got to calm him down. I would calm him and then when I would try to remove my hands from the isolet he would get mad again. I gave him his pacifier, which by the way all three babies have a good suck which is really remarkable for their age, and I could have stood there holding him all night. I don't think it was coincidence that of the babies it was the baby with the B name that I gravitated to.
We left the hospital and headed to Genny's house to give her some gifts and visit a little bit more. Jace (her son) and Rylie (her oldest and now the ONLY girl) had a blast taking me from room to room in the NICU and again at their house. Rylie was even wearing the shirt I made her.
These were some of the others. Genny and JJ are music people. That is putting it mildly, so I had to make some musically minded clothes for the babies.
Jace's shirt
Rylie's shirt
JJ's shirt, the back above and the front below
Somehow I ended up not getting a picture of the front of Genny's shirt. It had three babies on it and it said FAQ- the back had the answers. Some times I amuse myself.
And the triplet's onesies. One of the music references for each and then a set of the "triplet" ones.
I know, I am very punny. Can't wait to see the babies big enough to wear them!
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