Days 12 and 13 were pretty good days for the girls. Since Aubrey is older, let's talk about her first.
Aubrey had an echocardiogram on Monday. Her PDA (heart murmur) is still moderate in size, and her doctor said that her heart appears a little "more full." Being more full is suggestive that the PDA is affecting her circulation, so her doctors are considering starting indomethacin if she doesn't show any signs of bleeding. When her lungs are sunctioned, a little pink is still present in what gets sucked out.
Aubrey also had a cranial ultrasound on Monday. It showed no change from the past one, which is good. She is also still on the oscillating ventilator. Something you may have noted from the picture above is that her bruising is getting a lot better. Here's another picture of her showing how her bruises are looking.
Now it's Paige's turn. Here's a close up of her. (Sorry that it turned out a little weird. I have a new lens for my camera and I was playing around with aperture settings = wide open f/1.8, and I shot it through double-walled plexi-glass).
She had a cranial ultrasound on Monday which showed no problems whatsoever. Unlike her big sister, she did not have an echocardiogram, so nothing to report there. Her blood oxygen saturation was a little up and down, so the respiratory therapists adjusted her breathing tube a little bit. That has seemed to help out with her respiration.
The biggest thing to report is that she got her first feeding on Tuesday! I had to go to work before it happened, and Andrea wasn't feeling well and went home, so we both missed it. She was given 1 mL (that's about 15 - 20 drops) of mommy's milk (or whatever comes out the first few days). She seemed to tolerate it pretty well, so the plan is to keep on doing it every 6 hours. As I explained in my previous post, giving her milk is not for nourishment, but to get her digestive tract up and going and prepared for a milk diet in the future. I'll get pictures (or video) of the feeding in the next post.
Another cool thing that happened was I got to pick Paige up on Tuesday. Her nurse wanted to change her blanket (got peed on), so she asked me to help. Both girls, especially Paige, are so small that I'm not really sure how to handle them, but I manged to scoop her up with the nurse's help and hold her over her bed while the nurse put in a fresh blanket. Amazing how small she is.....
Here's another picture of Paige.
The biggest thing to report is that she got her first feeding on Tuesday! I had to go to work before it happened, and Andrea wasn't feeling well and went home, so we both missed it. She was given 1 mL (that's about 15 - 20 drops) of mommy's milk (or whatever comes out the first few days). She seemed to tolerate it pretty well, so the plan is to keep on doing it every 6 hours. As I explained in my previous post, giving her milk is not for nourishment, but to get her digestive tract up and going and prepared for a milk diet in the future. I'll get pictures (or video) of the feeding in the next post.
Another cool thing that happened was I got to pick Paige up on Tuesday. Her nurse wanted to change her blanket (got peed on), so she asked me to help. Both girls, especially Paige, are so small that I'm not really sure how to handle them, but I manged to scoop her up with the nurse's help and hold her over her bed while the nurse put in a fresh blanket. Amazing how small she is.....
Here's another picture of Paige.
I thought I could end the post today with a picture of Andrea during less stressful times. We took a trip to British Columbia this summer. Here's Andrea on Vancouver Island focusing on getting as close to the ocean as possible without getting her shoes wet.
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