November 24, 2009 Babies are 6 Days Old

Well, Milk has arrived!!!!!!!!! I was worried.....but no longer :) There's a steady flow going now. Baby update:

Jaydin, Journee, and Jerzee are all having PICC lines put in today. These are IV lines that are a little more invasive than the ones we're used to having/seeing. These last a long time and will prevent the babies from going through constant IV changes. The also allow better supplies of their nutrients to reach the body. Once they are in, all three babies will lose the lines that are currently in their belly buttons. They will like that.

All three babies are off the billirubin lights (jaundice) for now. They check their levels each day and may go back and forth on that.

Jaydin and Journee are still on their nasal canulas'; however, they are only getting small amounts of room air ... so they're almost ready to be off of all.

Jerzee still has her CPAP ( a little mask over her nose). She is also getting room air, so hopefully, will go back to a nasal canula soon. It still takes her more of an effort to breath.

All three will have a brain ultrasound on Wednesday. This is natural for all babies born before 32 weeks gestation. They will have one now and another at one month old. This checks for brain bleeds. If the results are good, we may be able to hold Jaydin and Journee. Not Jerzee yet because of the CPAP.

Journee and Jaydin were eating, but they are both off of food (breastmilk via tube feeding). They are off because their tummies just were not handling it. They will try again maybe tomorrow with less food per feeding. Jerzee began eating 1 cc every 3 hours today. We'll see how that goes.

Hopefully, that will keep you posted. Thanks for all of your thoughts and prayers. Thank you auntie Linda for the tacos....Thank you grandma and grandpa for the Thanksgiving cards.