Monday July 28, 2008

It’s all about the food…and even though they have Wilcox/Hageman genes…we’re not there yet. Evie earned the prize for best nurser today – but that didn’t happen until about 9pm tonight. To try to get the girls off of gavage feedings, we introduced the bottle. However, to start they only get to bottle feed AFTER they practice with mom. So, Dad finally got to participate in feeding the girls (other than holding the syringe of course). I don’t think Maggie has figured out when she is full yet – because she ate the whole bottle AFTER she had nursed with mom. She seemed to be fine and still wanting to suck on her pacifier so maybe she is just trying to catch up to her sister. Evie does pretty well on the bottle feeding too. Thus, hopefully this will help them get used to eating all of their meals instead of getting fast food – which is a go home requirement.