Don’t worry, EG, you aren’t the first Grandpa to be put to this test, and it’s certain you won’t be the last. lol.
One of my daddy’s great granddaughters used to do him that way. The way we remedied it was to love and hug on him everytime she was around and giving hugs to everyone but him. Just let everybody take turns asking Grandpa if they can have all of the hugs Miss V doesn’t want, and it’ll probably be no time before she doesn’t like being left out, and wants in on the action. It worked on the kids in our family. Ha.
I'm not, I'm just funning with y'all. Oh Miss V's attitude is real enough, but I've seen it before. She'll come around in her own time, and then will grandpa ever get the hugs and kisses! I can wait her out. :)
Today's update on the twins is both good and not so good. Blood flow to Katerine, good on Thursday. Lungs looking as good as can be expected for their gestation period, with both of them about the same now. Katherine still not sucking her fist enough for the doctors (or not seen to do so at least). Daughter's blood pressure up, high normal, but for her that's just plain high.
Doctors want to take the babies as soon as Monday. Daughter not happy about that. She thinks doctors are leaning too heavily on the statistics and Katherine's small size, and not enough on her activity and the other observable stuff. She's says they are treating her like a statistic. She feels they'd be better off where they belong at only 35 weeks, in her uterus, at least for another full week after Monday.
Final decision will be made after Monday's exam. If Katherine has grown and her blood flow is still good, and daughter's BP stabilizes, they'll hold off at least a few days, but probably not as much as a week.
Strangely, I'm not worried, and never have been really, except when I first asked for help from Logan's prayer warriors, and things improved so fast after that, the worry did not last long at all.
The only concern I have is for Katherine's short femurs. Other than her legs she's not much smaller than her twin sister, but those little legs are really short, proportionally. They don't know why or how that happened. Daughter seemed worried about her lungs, concerns about asthma, etc, and a little about her ability to suck and swallow. (A good reason to keep her cooking a bit longer if the blood flow stays adequate, but of course that's a big if. Like her older sister, V, K has only a single umbilical artery, while Miss E has the usual two. That normally is not much of a problem, but coupled with her small size, it is a concern.
The only long term concern I have is that she might have trouble walking and otherwise getting around if her legs stay in the proportion they are now.