(This post is about December 10th…I wrote it on December 15th.) I spent most the day catching up around the house. Tanya spent most of the day at the hospital with the kids. She snapped a few photos of each of them. Here’s Sophia trying to hide the crusty stuff on her mouth from …
(I wrote this on Dec 15th, but it’s about the events of December 9th.) The twins are one month old today! It’s tough to explain the last month – it seems like it’s been forever. At the same time, if feels like it’s flown by. In reality, it’s been a month. The twins didn’t …
(I wrote this on Dec 15th, but it’s about the events of December 8th.) The kids are now starting their 5th week in the NICU. Today, Cameron got chosen for the bath baby of the day. He’s doing great at maintaining his temperature, so he finally earned the privilege of getting the stink cleaned …
I’m back at work now, so I’m not getting to spend much time at all with the kids. Tanya’s spending tons of time with them and is teaching them all the great things they need to know so that they can come home. She’s taking pictures of the kids when she can, but her priority …
The twins are doing great today. The jogging we did with Cameron yesterday was a bit much, so he lost a little weight. We cut way back on his aerobics (and cuddle time) today to help him not burn as many calories. I think Sophia’s water swelling is down a little bit from yesterday. If …
Yesterday the twins moved to the Level 1 NICU! If you recall from previous posts (or other references), Level 3 is the “scary NICU” and Level 1 is pretty much just a nursery. Level 1 (also called the Special Care Nursery) is where the stable kids go to get bigger. It’s another great step forward …
It’s been a very stressful couple of days. I’ll get right to the point. I’m happy to share that Sophia’s heart problem is fixed! Here are the details… At 11pm Tuesday night, Sophia started on indomethacin to hopefully close a patent ductus arteriosus (PDA). The best odds the doctors gave the medicine was 50%. If …
Yesterday Sophia was having a tough time maintaining her oxygen levels. I left out a few other details. The rest of the story is that Sophia has some heart issues. A few days ago, they heard a heart murmur during one of her routine checkups. The pediatric cardiologist did an echocardiogram (sonogram of the heart) …
Cameron was doing really well today. Sophia, not so much. They were both sleeping when we got to the NICU today. It was time to change their diapers & feed them, so we slowly woke Cameron up first. He & Tanya share the same distaste for waking up… After Tanya worked some magic on Cameron …
Sophia’s feed tube is now in her nose. I didn’t notice. Tanya said that one day Sophia’s going to dye her hair purple & I’m not going to notice. That’ll be great. When we walked up to our kids’ playpens today, there were two nurses around Cameron. They both looked pretty, ummm, taxed. When they …