Another emotional week for the Wainds! We were all set to bring Evan home yesterday but a late night "choke" on a feeding bought him some more time with his brothers. For some reason the RN thought I would be happy with this news (thinking I didn't want them to come home separately), but boy was I NOT!! Listen, I carried these precious babes for many hard, long months and now 4 weeks later and I still go home every night without a baby!?!? Are you kidding me, I will take anyone I can get! Of course I want to take them home ASAP and in any order they decide to come :) but know that we have to put the Dr's safety concerns in front of our parental need.
Updates at 1 Month old:
Evan: Weighing in at a whopping 6lb 8 oz! He continues to stay true to his nickname of "Easy Evan" although he does get a voice when he wakes up hungry or fills (and I mean FILL) his shorts. The waking up hungry causes him to be a bit over zealous with the bottle to start and is what we believe is causing his "episodes" that the RNs have experienced the last few nights. We have not witnessed this with him, but we know that we must really monitor his intake for the few minutes and make sure we stop the flow for him. After that, he settles into a nice pace and enjoys every last drop of his feed. Evan makes us take a double take many times, he looks like an identical to Brody as a newborn, it gives me the chills.
Payton: At 1 month weighs 5lb 14 oz! Payton continues to make "baby steps" in his progress. The last couple days have been the best yet though, we have not had to turn up his oxygen during feeds and he is actually taking partial feeds. Last night for the 1st time he took his entire bottle for the RN, yahoo!! Granted, he has slept through everything ever since- but still, baby steps! We heard the Dr say "chronic lung disease" for the first time yesterday regarding his condition, but we are all optimistic that he will out grow his need for oxygen in no time. There is still a chance he may need to come home on the O2, but we have a couple weeks to see how things play out. Pretty Payton is sure to melt anyone's heart when he flashes the giant grins he gives so freely!
Riley: Our lil peanut is now 5lb 7oz! Thinking back to when he was just 2lb 15oz this seems truly amazing. Riley has really stepped up his game the last day and I just heard from the Dr that he may beat his brother Evan in the homecoming race, crazy! Riley's feeding tube came out and he hasn't looked back once, I even breastfeed before his (and Evan's actually) bottle and they both suck the bottle dry every time now. Riley is going to have his car seat test today and the Dr just mentioned that he may even come home tomorrow! Who would have thought he would be the first one! (I just got the phone call as I am typing this!) We may be getting some bad weather, so weather permitting we may think it is more safe to keep them there and bring Evan and Riley home together this weekend, we will see what tomorrow brings. "Rowdy Riley" continues to make us laugh and coo multiple times a day.
Mom and Dad are continuing to use each other for support more than we ever could have imagined. We are truly lucky to have each other as our best friend during this most difficult time. We are quite the team and have impressed many nurses on how well we work together and "conquer" the care routine we have come to love! Now that we are "solo" for the next 10 days we are going to have to take some things on alone since we don't have in home care for Brody. I think that I will be spending the night at the hospital to help ensure that Evan does in fact get to come home soon and pray that it is only the feeding the technique that is causing these episodes that have kept him there. We figure that if we take the one constant variable out of the equation (the ever changing nursing staff) that that may be his ticket home! Fingers crossed!!
I mentioned that we are "solo" for a bit, Ben is actually driving G&G Waind to the airport right now :( We can't believe how fast their 2 week trip flew by! We also can't believe they came and went before a babe even came home. They were still a great help and really prepared us further for life at home with these boys. They surprised us with a beautiful new gliding chair/ottoman for feeding in our room and also installed cross bars on top of our van so we can use a luggage case/thingee! This really was a surprise, one we didn't even notice and it had to be pointed out to us a few days later, HA! Brody will miss them for sure and we are grateful that they were able to help us set up all the co-sleepers and other baby paraphernalia in preparation for their arrival. They spoiled all in true grandparent fashion :) We do have some great pics of them snuggling with the boys which I will post soon too!
Here are a few pics from one of our photo sessions ;) I love having nurse Susan who gets just as excited as I do about getting the boys together for photo ops! She saw the hats in their clothes basket and couldn't wait to set up a back drop and capture the moment with us! Enjoy!
Updates at 1 Month old:
Evan: Weighing in at a whopping 6lb 8 oz! He continues to stay true to his nickname of "Easy Evan" although he does get a voice when he wakes up hungry or fills (and I mean FILL) his shorts. The waking up hungry causes him to be a bit over zealous with the bottle to start and is what we believe is causing his "episodes" that the RNs have experienced the last few nights. We have not witnessed this with him, but we know that we must really monitor his intake for the few minutes and make sure we stop the flow for him. After that, he settles into a nice pace and enjoys every last drop of his feed. Evan makes us take a double take many times, he looks like an identical to Brody as a newborn, it gives me the chills.
Payton: At 1 month weighs 5lb 14 oz! Payton continues to make "baby steps" in his progress. The last couple days have been the best yet though, we have not had to turn up his oxygen during feeds and he is actually taking partial feeds. Last night for the 1st time he took his entire bottle for the RN, yahoo!! Granted, he has slept through everything ever since- but still, baby steps! We heard the Dr say "chronic lung disease" for the first time yesterday regarding his condition, but we are all optimistic that he will out grow his need for oxygen in no time. There is still a chance he may need to come home on the O2, but we have a couple weeks to see how things play out. Pretty Payton is sure to melt anyone's heart when he flashes the giant grins he gives so freely!
Riley: Our lil peanut is now 5lb 7oz! Thinking back to when he was just 2lb 15oz this seems truly amazing. Riley has really stepped up his game the last day and I just heard from the Dr that he may beat his brother Evan in the homecoming race, crazy! Riley's feeding tube came out and he hasn't looked back once, I even breastfeed before his (and Evan's actually) bottle and they both suck the bottle dry every time now. Riley is going to have his car seat test today and the Dr just mentioned that he may even come home tomorrow! Who would have thought he would be the first one! (I just got the phone call as I am typing this!) We may be getting some bad weather, so weather permitting we may think it is more safe to keep them there and bring Evan and Riley home together this weekend, we will see what tomorrow brings. "Rowdy Riley" continues to make us laugh and coo multiple times a day.
Mom and Dad are continuing to use each other for support more than we ever could have imagined. We are truly lucky to have each other as our best friend during this most difficult time. We are quite the team and have impressed many nurses on how well we work together and "conquer" the care routine we have come to love! Now that we are "solo" for the next 10 days we are going to have to take some things on alone since we don't have in home care for Brody. I think that I will be spending the night at the hospital to help ensure that Evan does in fact get to come home soon and pray that it is only the feeding the technique that is causing these episodes that have kept him there. We figure that if we take the one constant variable out of the equation (the ever changing nursing staff) that that may be his ticket home! Fingers crossed!!
I mentioned that we are "solo" for a bit, Ben is actually driving G&G Waind to the airport right now :( We can't believe how fast their 2 week trip flew by! We also can't believe they came and went before a babe even came home. They were still a great help and really prepared us further for life at home with these boys. They surprised us with a beautiful new gliding chair/ottoman for feeding in our room and also installed cross bars on top of our van so we can use a luggage case/thingee! This really was a surprise, one we didn't even notice and it had to be pointed out to us a few days later, HA! Brody will miss them for sure and we are grateful that they were able to help us set up all the co-sleepers and other baby paraphernalia in preparation for their arrival. They spoiled all in true grandparent fashion :) We do have some great pics of them snuggling with the boys which I will post soon too!
Here are a few pics from one of our photo sessions ;) I love having nurse Susan who gets just as excited as I do about getting the boys together for photo ops! She saw the hats in their clothes basket and couldn't wait to set up a back drop and capture the moment with us! Enjoy!
Hey Brooke, I might miss you Friday! Hopefully you'll be bringing babies home! I was thinking about the possibility of you staying there during the nights to see if things would be more consistant. I'm a pray'n girl! Glad the boys are all doing well! I'd be happy to come over and spend a couple of hours with you guys if you want a hand w/ setting up, schedules, feeds, or just to chat once you're home. You'll have to call me, cause I don't want to bug you and know you're dying to just be home and be a family! But the offer is there indefinetly! Big Hugs!
ReplyDeleteSo glad they are doing better! We are getting our car back today so I'll contact you soon about bringing over some eats : )
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