NOVEMBER 30 UPDATE

    
You are the God who performs miracles and you display your power to the people. 
 Psa 77:14

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30 (two weeks, 4 days old)
29 WEEKS

Mckayla

Madilynn

Mackenzie

 McKayla will  be given indomethacin  because of her PDA but because she had a virus they need to make sure she is healthy enough to take the medicine.  She is off her IV after her scary respiratory issue and is back to 2 ml of mother's milk every three hours.  They will keep increasing her intake every feeding.

The doctor decided to give Madilynn medicine for her PDA.  She is getting 3 doses of indomethacin over 24 hours to help that to close up. She is on IV only now as they administer her medicine. She is having some goo in her eyes that the doctors will monitor.

Mackenzie will not need any medicine for her heart issue as it is determined that it was caused by an infection she had earlier and has resolved itself.  She is up to 19 ml per feeding.

Michael and Christine can only hold the babies during care time, which is every three hours when then get fed and changed.  They can take part in that if the babies have not had many alarms going off.  If the babies are at all stressed, they need to stay inside their isolettes with as little contact as possible to help their stress level decrease.

Mckayla weighs 1 pound, 14 oz.

Madilynn weighs 2 pounds, 1/2 oz

Mackenzie weighs 2 pounds

Pray that the medicine for the PDA will close that up successfully.  Pray there are no side effects to the medicine.  Pray that the babies will start to gain weight continuously now.  Pray that their little bodies will not stress out so that mommy and daddy can hold them every day skin to skin.  The skin to skin contact is critical for brain development among many other important developmental areas.

This NICU has 35 preemies in it.  Right after our miracle babies were born we saw a news crew in the room next to ours and Christine discovered that a baby born at 21 weeks was going home.  The baby had been in the NICU for 6 months.  It is phenomenal that these itty bitty babies are surviving and thriving.  These doctors and nurses have extra training to take care of these miracles from heaven and are truly a blessing to so many parents going through early delivery and subsequent complications.