6 Days Old

Reid without oxygen! Wide awake after bath time.

Don't tell me she's not a Princess!

This will probably be rather short, because I want to get pictures and videos uploaded for Brent while I have internet. But once I get started, it's hard to stop.

We woke up to very good news today. Reid was taken off the ventilator last night and Rylee received a new IV in her foot, instead of her scalp. When I got there this morning, they had put him back under the blue light for jaundice. They think he will only need that for 24 hours or so, let's pray that is right. Both babies increased on feedings today. Reid went from 2 cc's to 4 cc's, and Rylee went from 5 to 6.8 cc's. I know they are going to increase Rylee again tomorrow if she tolarates today's increase. I'm not sure about Reid, since he has had problems with digestion so far. He did very good today with residual, only had a few traces and they were milky, which means he is digesting, just a little slow.

I have found my favorite time of day to go see them. If I go around 7:30 at night, the new nurses have come on duty and they are doing nightly duty on each baby. They change their tubes, wash them off a little, weigh them, and change their diapers. They have to take Rylee out of her incubator to weigh her, so I get to see her without any tubes and bare bottomed. Tonight when the nurse put her on the scale, she didn't put her on the clean diaper straight and she peed EVERYWHERE! Both of them had dirty diapers today, which is another great sign of digestion and feeding progress.

Reid was having a little trouble breathing tonight, but it is because of the light being on him and being closed up in the incubator. He was overheated and that was causing him to breathe a little faster than he should. Once the nurse washed him down and lowered the temp in the incubator, he did much better.

Pray that he levels out on his breathing so they don't have to put him back on oxygen. We have done too well to go back now. Rylee weighed 3 pounds tonight, and Reid weighed 3 pounds 2 ounces. Pray we can keep increasing feedings, and gaining weight.

I am pretty tired today, but think it is because of a busy and emotional weekend. We have company coming Wednesday, so I will probably take it easy tomorrow. My incision has hurt more today than it has, but hopefully that will slowly get better. Pray for a speedy recovery on my part. I can tell today that I am starting to become a little exhausted. I'm getting up at least twice a night to pump, and I think all the excitement is starting to wear down.

I have temporarly found a place in the RMH that I can get internet. So if this chair will continue to pick it up, I may have a new favorite place to sit. I will update tomorrow. Thank you for all your prayers and thoughts! Please keep it up, that is what has gotten us this far.

Love,
Jessica, Reid, and Rylee