We Have a Private Suite!

Due to an over flow at the NICU, the charge nurse asked us if we would like to be moved to a private room upstairs. Now we have a window, our own bathroom and one nurse for all 3 babies. The quiet and privacy are great and we are very happy with this move.

Baby News: Today we found out that Emmerson and Logan will be taken off of their IVs and will now recieve all of their nutrition through their NG tubes. This is great news! They have each increased in their feedings. Emmerson is now at 28 ml every 4 hours and Logan is at 25 ml every 4 hours. Hopefully they continue to tolerate their feeds. They are also going to be getting a fortifer added to the breast milk to help boost the calories and hopefully help them gain weight. Oddly enough, they are both the same weight now, 1315 grams. This is a drop for both of them, but the doctor is not worried and we all hope to see the weight gain soon. Brody is weighing in now at 1865 grams, and they are now increasing his feeds again since he is no longer on the medicine for his murmur. He is up to 15 ml per feed and they will go up on his feeds daily to get him back up to where he was over the next couple of days as long as he tolerates his feeds.

Both Brody and Emmerson are still having some "spells" throughout the day, and the nurses are watching closely to see if they might need to be put back on their nasal canulas or possible be treated for reflux which can also cause de-sats (or drops in their oxygen levels). It is good that even when they drop in their oxygen level, it is more like a small dip and they come right back up to acceptable levels. Logan continues to have no spells and is still doing very well.

Emmerson is also doing well holding her body tempature with her incubator turned down as low as it goes. This means that with a little weight gain, she could be out into an open crib soon.

And finally, we heard "unofficially" today that in the opinon of the ultra sound tech and our doctor that Brody's PDA ( which caused his murmur) is closed and he will not need any further treatment. We need to wait until the pediatric cardiologist at Lutheran check the films and gives his diagnosis until it is "official", but this looks like good news! Our neonatologist seems pretty confident that everything is fine. So...YEAH!!!