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!


Sunday, January 15, 2012

Day 42 - 1/14/12

Day 42...

Some photos from 1/9/12:



Davis peeking from around his CPAP mask.


Lilly getting a break from her CPAP mask!

Dad holding Lilly. He is also such a fashionista... notice the trendy plastic cloths.


Mom holding Davis... Roll Tide!





Lilly is still doing ok. Removing the plug yesterday seemed to help, but there still seems to be something causing her to not breathe as well. She is on low support and doing fine, but there are some indications that she is not getting the best flow in her lungs and her CO2 gases are a little high (most likely a floppy airway or something like that). The plan is to let her rest and get stronger and hopefully she gets through whatever is causing the issue.

Davis is still holding strong. He is still on light support and is happy with it.

They have both of their beds turned down to low temperature settings, which means both kids are doing a good job of maintaining their own body temp. If they keep this up, they will pop the tops on their tanks within the next few days to see how they handle it. If they handle it well, then they get to graduate to cribs!

Weigh in time... both kids lost an ounce today. Davis is at 2 pounds and 15 ounces and Lilly is at 2 pounds and 11 ounces. Hopefully we have big weight gains tomorrow!

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