48 hour test has started!

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After asking the doctor if we could stop adding the yucky tasting fortifiers altogether, the little boy and girl have starting eating like champs.  They went onto their own schedule yesterday afternoon, and since then they've been passing the "test" of waking up hungry within four hours, eating lots by bottle before getting tired, and gaining weight.  Today Theo and Sophie each sucked down 70 to 80 mL's! 

Anticipated coming home date could be Monday afternoon!

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