Monday, April 22, 2019

Easter Bunny v Stork

I've always heard that the stork brings babies. Apparently that's not quite right. In our case, the Easter bunny welcomed both babies home from the NICU!


We are overjoyed, exhausted, and a bit scared, and it's all wonderful! Baby boy has actually been home for about two weeks, but his sister kept having bad apnea/bradycardia spells that required intervention to resolve. She has now gone 6 days without any spells during sleep, which is what the neonatologists wanted for discharge. She does still have spells that require us to intervene during feeding  which is terrifying. Fortunately we can now recognize them with relying on the monitors, and resolve with just tactile stim. she should grow out of them as time passes. Till then, she's on apnea precautions and we're a bit scared but thrilled to be able to love on her at home!