The babies are all making progress, Jace is on a plateau right now and cant seem to catch up with his brother and sister with his weight, the nurse said this is normal and he will catch up. They all seem to be doing what they should be doing at this stage in there life! =)
Jace- Yesterday we found Jace doing amazing with his breathing and looked in the incubator and the cannula wasnt even in his nose! So the nurse is like well lets leave it like that and see how long he lasts, he did that for over 15 minutes! They said maybe its being more of a nuisance than a help? So they turned him down from 4.0 liters at like 30-35% to 2.0 liters at like 21-25% which is a HUGE difference and he has been doing great for the whole day! Praise God! 2.0 liters is barely anything and 21% is room air! We are so grateful and pray he can keep this up! He lost 20grams today and is back down to 3lbs 14oz, he will get over the hump! lol Hes still at 36ml of food and 24 calories of fortifer, hes been at this since last saturday, part of the reason why he hasnt gained much weight, he has acid reflux pretty bad so he throws up a lot which doesnt help either poor guy =(
(this is the best picture I could get of him today) I will do better next time =)
Liam- He is still on room air doing great, they took him off his caffeine which helps him to remember to breath so our prayer for him is that he does as good breathing without the caffeine as hes doing now on it...they have to be off the caffeine for at least 5 days before they can go home...He gained 30 grams and now weighs 4lbs 7oz. Hes eating 40ml of milk with still the 24 calories of fortifier. Every day he gets better drinking out of the bottle or trying to breast feed, his coordination skills are maturing day by day.
Stella- She is also on room air doing great, she gained about 30grams and weighs 5lbs 3oz now. She is eating 50ml of milk and the 24 calories of fortifier still. I fed her a bottle today and she drank the whole thing, were trying to feed her the bottle every other time now...she gets really tired from trying so hard so they dont like to push them...all of a sudden they say she will get it and start drinking the bottle every time...once she does that for a couple of days she can come home!
(I was going trying to get a picture of her and her cute little outfit, I was even going to try to put a bow on her but as you can tell she was annoyed, lol so I decided to leave her alone and get what I could =))
oh my goodness the babies are looking so cute! They're getting bigger and bigger. And I love that you have Stella in leopard already.
ReplyDeleteYou're so right Sheryl, flu season is upon us and keeping the babies safe is the most important thing.