Had a "Not So Great last 2 Days"

About the only upside to today and yesterday, is that the boys will be 1 month old tomorrow.

Easton doesn't like the sound of cry babies.

Easton was stressing out mommy and daddy today as his oxygen dropped to less than 20% on two separate occasions requiring him to be "bagged." A blue baby is not something any parent should have to see at any time during their child's stay in the NICU. It is the saddest and hardest thing to watch as the nurses and respiratory therapists do all they can to get your son to re-oxygenate, and after the fact be told he had a spasm, preemies do that. "what? they do that, they just stop taking in oxygen while there other vitals stay the same?" That is just hard for me to comprehend. Easton's head has not enlarged over the last 24 hours which is a good thing now we just need it to digress slowly. His diaphragm is another sore subject, the right side is higher than it should be causing unnecessary pressure on his right lung "possibly part of the problem with the oxygenation." Also his hematocrit levels were low so he was given another blood transfusion, which brings the total to ??? a lot. The Doctor also believes he might have an infection so he was started on 2 separate antibiotics today, until we get the blood results back from the lab. Yesterday Easton was able to receive 4 ml of Mommas sweet nectar, today the Dr. raised it to 6 ml. The Neurologist and neuro-surgeon have talked and it sounds like Thursday or Friday Easton will get a temporary shunt to help release some of the pressure out of the ventricles in his brain, it is really a wait and see kind of thing until the neuro-surgeon gets back from family vacation. Easton is still precious as ever and really like to suck on his fingers and pacifier now.

Sweet Carter suckin on his thumb

Carter is pushing forward like a champ and blew through 4 diapers on this mornings care time for Rosie his nurse. Carter was on 7 ml of milk yesterday and was moved up to 10 ml today by the doctor. He is eating it all up and having minimal residual left in his tummy after three hours. Carter was given a lasix yesterday to help him excrete some of the fluid he is retaining. Carter was slightly raised on his vent settings, a slight push back, considering we were hoping to see him on the c-pap machine so we might actually be able to hold him for the first time.

Both boys had a culture sent to the lab because some of the mucus out of there lungs has been yellow and could be a sign of infection. We have been told that there will be ups and downs and after so many good days we should have expected this to happen we were just hoping and praying it wouldn't. Thankfully we still have our boys and these were minor set backs in the grand scheme of things.