Nearing the End...

Chris, Dan, and Nate

Chris and Dan

I have thoroughly enjoyed having "Grandma" Patten join me in the NICU on some evenings. The boys are all progressing very well. All three boys are out of their isolettes now (and in fact are transferred to a larger shared crib), and their umbilical cord stumps have all fallen off. The boys all weigh over four pounds each now, and are all feeding by bottle all their meals on a flexible schedule (3-4 hours, depending on how much they eat each time). We are nearing the end of our NICU stay, but the boys are still having brady’s (including some spontaneous ones-not related to feeding). The doctor says once they get past that, they will be just about ready to go home.

Please continue to pray, especially, that the boys will mature quickly and grow out of the apnea/brady (breathing/heart rate dip) symptoms that are so common in preemies. It's not a huge problem in the hospital, but for obvious reasons we can't go home until they are pretty much past that.