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Anna's proven to be a champion feeder. The neonatologist told us this morning that she's getting enough from bottles and nursing to be taken off the NG tube. Evelyn, though larger, still has a little way to go before she has all those skills. The neonatologist said Anna is "small, but mighty." Indeed.

The SCN gave us fair warning that they might be healthy enough to discharge in a week to 10 days. That's the first real estimate we've been given. They also warned us yesterday that Ginger might be required to "room in" at the SCN in order to synchronize her nursing with their feeding schedule, which heretofore has not been an issue, but will be an issue when they're at home. It will be odd finally to have the "rooming in" experience at Peninsula that we'd had with Patrick and Charlie, and that we had hoped to have with this pregnancy as well.

I guess it's time to paint the nursery. We're picking colors that sort of go with the 1950s architecture of our house, and I was actually thinking of using pink -- as long as it's a hip kind of old-timey 1950s pink and not a candy-cane pink or Pepto-Bismol pink. Right now Ginger and I are leaning toward Benjamin Moore's Bouquet Rose (2172-50) or Pink Hibiscus (2172-60).

Bouquet Rose

Pink Hibiscus