Day 10 update

Reese and Grant are still in the special nursery at Barnes Hospital. 


Grant is eating better, he even finished two whole bottles over the last 12 hours!  Go Grant Go!  Once he can keep that up, they will take his feeding tube out and watch him for 24 hours, then its time for the circumcision...yikes!  After that he will stay another 24 hours, and if he still eats and all is well, he will come home.  WE are hoping by the end of the week he will be ready. (but we are trying not to get our hopes up too high, we are just playing each day as it comes)

Reese WAS set to come home Sunday.  They had taken her tube out Friday night and she has been eating great ever since and even graduated to eating every 4 hours instead of every 3.   However sometime early that morning she started dipping real low on her oxygen levels, so they had to put her back on a low level of oxygen.  She was really fussy all day Sunday, and they decided to do some tests and put her on some antibiotics in case of infection.  They did a chest xray which came back great (better than her initial one), and the urine and blood work all came back great.  The nasal culture they did is still being watched and will be for 5 days to see if she got some sort of virus.  Soooooo, they had to put her in an isolation room until they can get a better idea of what she might have caught.  They just really want to watch for RSV since she is a preemie and they don't want it to spread to any of the other babies or make her worse.  So we have to suit up to go see her.  On the bright side, she is still eating her full amount and did not have to be put back on a feeding tube yet.  We just pray she continues to eat and doesn't fall back in that area while we wait for the results.