Lilly and Davis' Story

Lilly Mae and Davis Anthony were born on Sunday, December 4th. They were born at 25 weeks and 5 days of gestation.

Lilly was born first at 9:56PM. She weighed 1 pound and 14 ounces and was 13.25 inches long. Her head was 24 cm in circumference (slightly smaller than a baseball).

Davis was born at 10:07PM... 11 minutes after his sister (something she'll never let him forget). He weighed 1 pound and 13 ounces. He was 13 inches long and had the same size head as his sister.

Both were taken to the NICU directly after delivery and are expected to be there until their original due date, March 12th (that's exactly 100 days in the NICU!)

Please keep these little ones in your thoughts and prayers and hopefully we will get to bring them home sooner!


Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Day 31 - 1/3/12

Day 31...

Today was a crappy day for Lilly and pretty good day for Davis.

For the last couple of days Lindsey and I have noticed Lilly has been looking pale. We brought it up to different nurses several times, but they didn't seem concerned. Low blood count can cause paleness and they tested her blood count on the 30th and she came back with a 31 (they look at blood transfusions if it goes below 30...). Today, Lilly was even paler and she started acting up on her CPAP. They looked at her blood gases and her CO2 was high. They retested her blood count and she is down to 21 (they think the 31 on the previous test was probably an error...). So, they gave Lilly a blood transfusion. They also moved her back to a ventilator to help her lower her blood gases. The nurses are also worried that she may have an infection. They x-rayed her belly and they saw something in her intestines that may be questionable (they said it could also just be gas...). So, they started Lilly on antibiotics. They also don't want to feed her until they can take another look at her belly (taking another x-ray tomorrow morning), so they will be giving her nutrition through her new IV. Lilly had a tough day... hopefully it gets better for her tomorrow.

Davis on the other hand is doing well. They lowered his settings on the CPAP... great news!

The weigh in... despite everything going on with Lilly, she still managed to gain 30 grams today. She now weighs 2 pounds and 11 ounces. Davis lost a few grams, dropping him to 2 pounds and 7 ounces.
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