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!


Monday, January 16, 2012

Day 44 - 1/16/12

Day 44...

Today was a huge day for the kids! They opened the top of both of their incubators. They both are doing well maintaining their body temperature, so they don't need the extra heat from the incubators. If they do ok over the next several days, they will move them to open beds!

There are 3 requirements that each kid needs to achieve before they are allowed to go home (contrary to most peoples beliefs, weight is not a requirement). The first, maintain your body temp. Check. The second, you have to be able to feed from a bottle without drowning yourself or forgetting to breathe. We get to start working on that in 2 weeks. The third, you have to be able to breathe without any assistance (or very minimal assistance). We are working on that and hopefully are well on our way of meeting that requirement. So, as of today, 1 down and 2 to go!

Both kids were also seen by the nutritionist today and both are getting changes to their feedings. Last week, Davis was getting 6.5 ml of 24 calorie per ounce food. Throughout the week they increased his food to 26 calorie per ounce and have been slowly increasing the volume. Today they moved him to 9.1 ml per hour! Lilly is still going to get 25 ml every 3 hours (she gets her feedings over an hour, as opposed to continuous like Davis), but she is going up to 26 calories per ounce (thank goodness... maybe she will start to gain weight like her brother did this week!).

Lilly is scheduled to get an echo cardiogram tomorrow. They want to check out her heart and see if her left side looks any more distressed than the last test. They will also look at her PDA to see of anything needs to be done and reevaluate her need for Lasix (the diuretic... another reason she is not gaining weight as fast). We most likely will not get the results until Wednesday... gonna be a long couple of days.

Weigh in time... Davis gained 2 ounces and is now up to 3 pounds and 2 ounces! He's getting so big! Lilly gained an ounce and is now up to 2 pounds and 12 ounces. Hopefully with the increase in calories she will be able to catch up to her big brother!
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