Wednesday, December 19, 2007

It’s beginning to look a lot like (after) Christmas





Katelyn is doing well and Amy tells me she is quite the celebrity at the dermatologist’s office. They even took some pictures during her visit today and gave us copies. (I will scan them and post them soon.) She wore a reindeer outfit today that was pretty cute. Here lip is progressing quite well and everyone is very optimistic. We will get a monitor that measures the oxygen saturation in her blood today. She has been doing really well on her last couple of tests without oxygen so we are going to take her off of her oxygen and watch this monitor for a day. If this room air trial goes well, we will be able to take the tubing away for good.

Brandon has officially passed Katleyn in weight. Katelyn weighed in at 8lbs. 8oz. yesterday and Brandon was 8lbs. and 9oz. a couple of days ago. It is still going to take a while to get Brandon home. I have resigned myself to the fact that it may be closer to a full six months stay in the NICU (Jan10th) before he can come home. He is doing well but with the current weaning schedule he won’t be completely off of his medication until December 23. He has shown some good progress in the last couple of days. His average intake when nursing or taking a bottle has jumped from 10-15 up to 20-35. His full feeding is around 70 ml. so he still isn’t near a full feeding but we are happy to see progress. He also isn’t consistent. He often gets tired and we have been advised not to push him and make it a bad experience.

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