Monday, May 4, 2009




Well, still no news on McKenna's gut infection. They did blood work but we haven't gotten the results yet. Last night was extremely difficult as we were there for over two hours and for over an hour of the time she kept having oxygen drop after oxygen drop. They think she just did too much that day - had one "feeding" and had a bath. At her weight and size that is a LOT of activity. So today we opted to only do one feeding and her oxygen seemed quite a bit better. Will try doing only one feeding a day with her instead of the original suggested two to see if that decreases the oxygen drops and helps increase her weight (she has lost grams past couple days). Also hoping that decreases number of heart drops too as she had a few yesterday and again today.

Keaton is doing awesome still. The nurse said they aren't retesting his infection until next Wednesday which will be two weeks after his original diagnosis. That's a bit frustrating, but I am sure there is a reason for it.

He has moved to "nipple feeding" which can include a bottle every three hours, instead of just two or four times a day. I was really excited about this because it meant Kyle got to feed him with a bottle tonight for the first time. He was frustrated at the difficulty of getting a 33 week gestation baby to feed since he hasn't picked up on the sucking very well yet, but he did really good for the first time ever feeding a baby. After about twenty minutes and Keaton only eating 9 ml we decided to do the normal tube down the nose feeding.

Keaton lost a few grams tonight too, so he is at 3 lb 11 oz now. That's okay. It's expected for him to lose since he is burning calories while feeding now. And, today he got to wear his first onsie. He looked so hilarious. It's a preemie onsie but man did it swallow him whole! Will have to post a picture of it. He looks so cute.

As always, thanks for your prayers, comments, love, support! We are so grateful and wish we could express it somehow...

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