Lauren has been doing very well so it looks like she will be coming home this week. She would be coming home tomorrow but we are insisting that she comes home with an apnea monitor so she has to have some tests tomorrow and the pulmonary doctors need to take over her case. So now they are saying probably Thursday. The doctors really don't want to send us home with a monitor because they say it causes undue stress on us because of false alarms. This is probably true but we will have "undue stress" if we don't have it! We watched Abby like a hawk the first couple weeks so I can only imagine how crazy we will be with a 5 pound preemie with a history of just stopping breathing for 20 seconds or more. I bet when Ethan comes home we will require a full time nurse and a doctor to stop by daily. I am just kidding of course...kinda. : )
Speaking of the little man, Ethan is now in a big boy bed too!! He didn't fail the test twice like his sister. He was put in the crib and has been holding his temperature pretty well ever since. He is so cute. He looks around like he is thinking, "Whoa! So this is what the world looks like outside of the box! Cool!" He has been getting better at taking a bottle and gets 3 a day. The rest goes in through a feeding tube. He probably could take more from the bottle but he gets so tuckered out from bottle feeding that its just too much right now. He has to build up to it. He is such a trooper!
I was told Ethan is at least 2 weeks from going home so no chance of him coming home too this week. It's okay, they say I can bring Lauren back up to the hospital when I come to visit Ethan.
More soon! Love, h
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SWEET!!! I'm so proud of you guys! Hang in there...Ethan will be home before you know it!
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