Almost Home

Was so excited tonight when I walked in to Keaton's "Suite" and saw that his incubator heat was off, he was in a full sleeper and had a hat on. One of the big steps before he can go home is holding his own body temperature, and so far he is doing it. If he continues to hold it until tomorrow afternoon than they will put him in a bassinet. He looked so adorable!!! The other main steps are drinking full feedings every time (still at 35 ml every three hours, but occasionally falls asleep before finishing full bottle) and not having any apnea spells. The nurse predicts he will go home in about a week. WOO HOO! This Tuesday they will be 35 weeks if I was still pregnant.

He has been having greenish-yellow gunk in belly button past couple days and nurse today realized he had a suture still in there from when he had the IV put in his belly button. Hopefully now that they removed the suture he will not have any more puss. She noted also that Keaton has a small hernia there so they will keep an eye on it. We are going to request the doctor look at it on his next rounds.

Keaton was looking really pale again tonight too, so they will do blood work in the next couple days to make sure his numbers are okay and that he doesn't need a transfusion. Not sure how it works if he needs a transfusion or how long he has to be in hospital. I would imagine that would delay his coming home, but I would prefer the delay as opposed to him having to be checked back in for the transfusion.

Also, his rash is still on his face. Please begin praying the rash and hernia go away or God heals him of these things. And pray his blood count goes up on its own so no transfusion is needed. We are also praying he continues to hold his own temperature, gains weight and begins eating all his bottle feedings.

McKenna has a lot of gunk in her eyes and this morning she could hardly open her left eye due to the large amount of sleepers. Apparently they continued to build back up throughout the day and the nurse plans to do a swab on them tonight and will see if it is an infection. If so, they will have to giver her antibiotic eye drops and hopefully that will heal her.

She drank her entire bottle for me tonight (25 ml) and then was wiped out. She is a good eater though and seems really hungry by the time it's feeding time.

McKenna is exact weight tonight as yesterday. She had a heart drop today and several oxygen drops throughout the day too.

Please pray for McKenna's eye infection to go away, that she continues to drink her one a day bottle, that she gains weight, that she is protected from the gut infection and/or MRSA, and that her blood count goes back up on its own so another transfusion won't be necessary.

Thanks everyone for all the mother's day wishes! That is so sweet. It was a wonderful one and I am so blessed to have two beautiful babies.