Sorry for the lack of updates over the last few days; combination of not having my laptop with me and being busy with babies, keeping up with everyday life stuff, etc…
Boys are doing well! Every day brings a little more progress. The boys are both off of their CPAP breathing machines, off their light to alleviate bilirubin, and off of their IVs. The only invasive thing right now is their feeding tube that deposits the food through their nose down to their stomach until their sucking/digestive system develops. That will likely stay in for ~a month more. The boys and Raechel keep ramping up on their milk requirements/production, and should be in alignment in the next few days if things continue to trend well. They still have their episodes where their heart or respiratory rates go outside of range, but either through their own or a little external stimulation brings them back into range within 10-15 seconds. They monitor and record each of those “Bradys” (bradycardia) or “Apneas” and communicate shift-to-shift to keep track of their status. One of the check marks that they can go home is that they have seven consecutive days without either of those, versus these days they’ll have one or more in an hour.
If you’re on Facebook, you’re probably aware that we’ve been able to have some skin-to-skin contact over the last few days, which is really exciting. Today we were able to hold each of them for about 45 minutes, which was really mutually rewarding. Raechel had the chance to read into a tape recorder yesterday that they can put into their incubator so the babies can hear her voice, and I’m working on picking the perfect read so I can add my own voice to the recording.
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| David and Jameson |
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| Rae and Henry |
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| First Family Picture! |
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| Henry and Jameson (showing off his guns) |
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