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, March 2, 2012

Day 89 - 3/1/12

Day 89...


Today was a great day for Lilly... not so much for Davis. The NICU is planning on discharging Lilly on Monday, woooooohooooo!!! She will have to go home on oxygen, but that should only be for a few weeks. 


They were planning on sending Davis home the same day, but he keeps having an episode or two every day. They also decided to put him on blood pressure meds. They say this is pretty common for preemies. He will probably need them for a couple months, but should not be a forever thing. Since it takes the blood pressure meds a few days to kick in, and since they are also a diuretic, they will need to keep Davis until everything balances out and they make sure he is not losing a ton of electrolytes. He also needs to stop having episodes when he eats... At the earliest, it will be late next week before he could come home. It's gonna be tough having one kid in and one kid out of the NICU. I guess Lindsey and I will have to alternate days to visit Davis separately.


Weigh in time... Davis lost an ounce, probably due to his new meds. He is now 6 pounds and 4 ounces. Lilly stayed the same as yesterday at 5 pounds and 10 ounces.
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