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!


Friday, January 13, 2012

Day 39 - 1/11/12

Day 39...

Today was a rough day for Lilly. She didn't seem as energetic as she usually is and was struggling with breathing and keeping her heart rate up. They decided to run her for infection tests again and check her blood count. Early indications from the infection tests are negative, so that's good. Her blood count is at 30, so that's ok too. They think she may have inflammation in her nose or airway (from going back and forth on the ventilator), making it hard for her to breathe. They tried dropping a topical form of steroids down her nose to see if that helped. It didn't... So, she is getting 3 rounds of steroids in her IV to see if that helps the inflammation.

Davis is still doing well. They are talking about lowering his CPAP support early next week! Hopefully we can get him off the CPAP and move onto the next lower form of support, the high flow machine (uses nostril tubes... similar to what adults who are dependant on oxygen use).

Weigh in time... both kids have gained a total of 1 pound since their birth, woohoo! Lilly is now 2 pounds and 14 ounces and Davis is 2 pounds and 13 ounces.
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