Quick update!
Camden is coming home tonight! Unfortunately, Emma will be spending a few more nights! We hope to have her home on Christmas, but are trying not to get our hopes up! Emma just needs some more time to master the art of feeding! Suck...swallow..breath...all at the same time! It kills me to be leaving Emma at the hospital, but I don't have much of a choice. The doctor says Camden will be discharged today, whether I am ready or not!
Merry Christmas! All of you that are leaving town for the holidays please travel safely!
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Thursday, December 13, 2007
One step forward and a few steps back!
This week has been very hard to go through! It is so exciting to see the babies make progress, but when they take some steps backward, it can be very emotionally and physically exhausting. Here are this weeks highlights and lowlights:
1. Highlight: Camden loves to drink from a bottle! After a few days of just sucking out a little from the bottle, she finally got the hang of it and drank an entire bottle. Emma started to try the bottle, but is still a little akward with the sucking and swallowing. She will get their eventually!
2. Highlight: Seeing the two of them snuggling! I left them one day to go get some lunch, and when I came back they were totally snuggled up next to each other. I think Emma just really loves her sister! (See the pictures below.)
3. Lowlight: Camden got a fever on Monday morning signalling that she had an infection. Preemies can get very sick with infections. She got moved out of the bed with her sister and into an isolette immediately. They ran millions of tests including a lumbar puncture...which for me was the scarest thing in the world. They put her on antibotics and she seems to be doing so much better! Come to find out yesterday, that she has a mild urinary infection.
4. Lowlight: Emma after being the strong one for a few days, woke up Tuesday night throwing up. She has a stomach infection of some kind, the results of those tests will not be back until later today. She was rushed across the hall back to the intensive care unit for monitoring. It is very serious to get any kind of stomach infection. They started her on anitbotics, and stuck a suction tube down her throat into her stomach to suction out all of the mucous and junk. Poor little baby...she looks so sad to be away from her sister. All of the xrays of her stomach that have come back so far, look like she is getting better very quickly. Only problem is that she will have to be without food for at least three days, and when she is ready for food again they will have to start her very slowly. It could be at least a week before she starts trying with a bottle again! AHHHH!
5. Lowlight: Both babies had to have blood transfusions yesterday afternoon. They went well and both should have lots of energy now to fight their infections.
Please keep our little ones in your prayers! We hope that all of our friends and family are having a very happy and healthy holiday season! We love you!
1. Highlight: Camden loves to drink from a bottle! After a few days of just sucking out a little from the bottle, she finally got the hang of it and drank an entire bottle. Emma started to try the bottle, but is still a little akward with the sucking and swallowing. She will get their eventually!
2. Highlight: Seeing the two of them snuggling! I left them one day to go get some lunch, and when I came back they were totally snuggled up next to each other. I think Emma just really loves her sister! (See the pictures below.)
3. Lowlight: Camden got a fever on Monday morning signalling that she had an infection. Preemies can get very sick with infections. She got moved out of the bed with her sister and into an isolette immediately. They ran millions of tests including a lumbar puncture...which for me was the scarest thing in the world. They put her on antibotics and she seems to be doing so much better! Come to find out yesterday, that she has a mild urinary infection.
4. Lowlight: Emma after being the strong one for a few days, woke up Tuesday night throwing up. She has a stomach infection of some kind, the results of those tests will not be back until later today. She was rushed across the hall back to the intensive care unit for monitoring. It is very serious to get any kind of stomach infection. They started her on anitbotics, and stuck a suction tube down her throat into her stomach to suction out all of the mucous and junk. Poor little baby...she looks so sad to be away from her sister. All of the xrays of her stomach that have come back so far, look like she is getting better very quickly. Only problem is that she will have to be without food for at least three days, and when she is ready for food again they will have to start her very slowly. It could be at least a week before she starts trying with a bottle again! AHHHH!
5. Lowlight: Both babies had to have blood transfusions yesterday afternoon. They went well and both should have lots of energy now to fight their infections.
Please keep our little ones in your prayers! We hope that all of our friends and family are having a very happy and healthy holiday season! We love you!
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Highlights from this week!
- Camden & Emma finally holding their body temperature, and allowed to be in the same bed! Yeah! It is so cute watching them interact with each other. They make all sorts of noises now! I think it is their way of talking to each other.
- Camden & Emma holding their food down better and increasing the amount of food they are eating. They are still getting all of their food from a feeding tube, but might graduate from the tube soon!
- Holding both of the girls at the same time! That is something I still need to master! But it was great holding them together!
- Watching my parents becoming such great grandparents! They love to come to the hospital and sing and talk to the the girls. So much fun!
- We had a great day nurse this week named Sonia- she helped me get footprints of the girls for their scrapbook. It was very difficult with Emma because she is such a wiggle worm!
- Emma is breathing better, but she is still on the oxygen through her nose! The doctor says her lungs are still just underdeveloped and need more time!
-Finally getting some medicine that will hopefully make my breastmilk come in better!
Those are just a few of the fun moments this week!
- Camden & Emma holding their food down better and increasing the amount of food they are eating. They are still getting all of their food from a feeding tube, but might graduate from the tube soon!
- Holding both of the girls at the same time! That is something I still need to master! But it was great holding them together!
- Watching my parents becoming such great grandparents! They love to come to the hospital and sing and talk to the the girls. So much fun!
- We had a great day nurse this week named Sonia- she helped me get footprints of the girls for their scrapbook. It was very difficult with Emma because she is such a wiggle worm!
- Emma is breathing better, but she is still on the oxygen through her nose! The doctor says her lungs are still just underdeveloped and need more time!
-Finally getting some medicine that will hopefully make my breastmilk come in better!
Those are just a few of the fun moments this week!
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