Happy one month (tomorrow), Lily and Claire! My apologies for not updating lately. As promised, here is a photo of Lily taken recently. I love how alert she looks-- both girls are spending a bit more time awake nowdays. They are also both doing well, Claire's creatinine continues to drop and is now at 1.0. Right now the focus is to get her to continue gaining weight, because she's very small for her gestational age. Last night she was weighing in at 2 lbs 3 oz. Lily has been gaining pretty steady and is weighing 3 lbs 4 oz. If she continues to grow at this pace, she'll be able to wear clothes soon and fairly soon start to be weaned into a crib. This is a process, because first they have to make sure she can maintain her temp by dropping it .5 degrees at each nursing shift. Lily is also now on low flow nasal cannula like Claire has been. So far so good-- and hopefully they won't have to go back to high flow.
They both continue to see occupational therapy for their thumbs (which is likely due to lack of space in the womb) and speech therapy. Speech therapy is trying to get them ready for breast and bottle feeding, which will begin soon. Lots of exciting things in their future! :)
(5/17/12)
That picture is beautiful. I love reading the updates Sunny!
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