Majkin
Happy New Year!!!!
It has been awhile since I sent an update on the babies- so here goes! At our last Dr. appt Carson weighed 5 lbs 8.9 ozs. He is now able to sit in his real car seat! :) Yay! (Not that we go anywhere besides the dr!) He is eating every 3 hours and is awake more now during the day. We have so much fun watching his expressions and listening to his noises. He is so funny! :) Sleeping at night is hit or miss. Some nights he sleeps really well- and other nights he is more fussy. He loves to be held (I can't wait for you all to meet him and hold him!!!) which just pains grandma! :) She can be found most minutes of the day rocking him, singing to him, or walking him around the house and introducing him to all of the rooms! We are adjusting to having one baby at home...but wonder how our world will flip when we get both of them here!
While we have Carson home- Majkin is still in the NICU- which means I am up at the hospital during the day with her- and mom is home babysitting Carson. We thought we were going to bring her home after Christmas- but she needs some more time to grow in the NICU. At last weigh in- Majkin was 5 lbs. 7.1 oz! She is really growing and filling out! (She is also "taller" than her brother!) Majkin has had some "spells" where the oxygen saturation in her blood drops to a low number. Usually the spells are associated with feedings and it is like she is choking on her food. Typically with feedings- she is able to recover on her own with some light stimulation (like patting her on the back- or rubbing her tummy), however she has had a few spontaneous spells (lying in her crib after a feed) and the nurses have needed to give her oxygen to recover. So now we are on a "spell watch" with her. When she can make it 5-7 days without needing oxygen to recover from a spell- we will get to bring her home. There is a chance she will come home on a monitor- which scares Mike and I to death- but we will be trained to use the monitor- and trained on how to handle any spells here at home. We are so anxious to have both of the kids home with us- but not anxious enough to bring Majkin home before she is really ready to be here! The spell issue we are told is very typical for preemies. We keep reminding ourselves that the babies aren't supposed to be in this world for a few more days! They need more time to get things figured out!
We brought our younger son Colin home on oxygen, he didn't have the monitor, but it was different none the less. By the time we were used to it, he came off:) Keep strong, it sounds like you're doing wonderfully! Congratulations on your double bundles of joy.
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