Wednesday, February 17

We had another big change yesterday. Andrew has graduated out of the incubator and is now in an open air crib. He's such a big boy. Andrew had been doing really well regulating his own temperature in the incubator, so the staff tried him out on his own. So far, he's doing really well with it. He has also spent 3 days on the SIPAP machine! His carbon dioxide levels have been looking good, but his x-ray still showed a collapsed right lung. When we visited yesterday, the nurse was suctioning out a bunch of mucus from his lungs. He was crying, and you could hear all of the junk he had in his chest. They started him on a medication to loosen the junk up, so that rattling we heard means it's working. He will have another x-ray this morning.

Mattie is doing really well. She gained close to 2oz. in a day. She's up to 3lbs. 7oz. She actually weighs more than Andrew, but we're not telling him. His weight was determined by a new scale, so we think he's lower because of that. Mattie's been on room air (21% oxygen) for several days now. The next step for her is to wean her off the incubator and into an open air crib.

Adelaide is still doing awesome. She's getting better on bottle feeding. She took a bottle last night and played around for the first ten minutes, and then decided she was hungry. She took the rest of the bottle in twenty minutes. She weighs 4lbs. 8oz.

We are amazed every day at the progress the babies have made. People talk about them being miracles, and they are. It's incredible to look back at how small they were at birth and how fragile their lives were. We thank God for His protection for our little three babies. If you get a chance, look at the pictures that were posted in December and compare them to now. You'll see what we mean.

Praise
Andrew moving out of the incubator.
Andrew still on SIPAP.
The mucus in Andrew's lungs breaking up.
Mattie doing great on nasal cannula and requiring little oxygen.
Adelaide doing better on bottle feeds.

Prayer
They have another round of eye exams today. Please pray for a normal report.
Andrew's lungs would continue to clear up. His right lung would inflate.