When are they coming home? (Updated.)

A bit of a blow yesterday. As you know, one of the benchmarks we've been dealing with is that, to be discharged, a baby must go a week without a serious oxygen desaturation episode. Anna had one last Saturday; Evelyn didn't, and that's why we were concerned that Evelyn might be discharged mid-week and Anna would have to stay until Saturday.

Well, Ginger arrived at the hospital Thursday morning to learn that Evelyn had a serious desat the night before. This re-sets her discharge countdown clock by a week. Anna's still cleared to come home on Saturday, when her countdown from her last desat runs out, but Evelyn will need to stay in the SCN at least until Thursday the 28th.

We're struggling to figure out what our lives will look like with one baby in the SCN and one at home. We're told the hospital doesn't enforce any "no siblings" rules as to twins, but once Anna is discharged, she's not a patient and the nurses won't be able to treat her as one. There are therefore some serious impracticalities to bringing Anna to the SCN every day, and even more serious impracticalities to leaving her at home. And the idea of spending more time at home with Anna and spending less time with Evelyn is, under the circumstances, abhorrent. This little twist is during out to be a major drag. Putting aside the actual medical issues, it's the first real inconvenience we've encountered in having twins -- or, specifically, the first inconvenience related specifically to having two kids each with a different compelling need from us at the same time.