Day 12

Today was a good day!  Trish was able to hold Grayson for 1 hour 45 minutes and clean his dirty diaper!  He was off the phototherapy today so he could do go as long as wanted.  Trish also picked Grayson up out of his bed and put him back into the bed.  Little things that we never thought about are now celebrated events and make us feel like parents.

Another piece of good news is that Scarlett had a huge bowel movement over night.  Hopefully both kids will be regular from here on out.  She also move up to 4ml feeding today as she lags brother by about a day.  He moved up to 7mls.  Chances are good that Grayson will need blood again soon so she will hopefully catch up then!

The lab results came back from their throat tube cultures and Grayon has an infection.  They need to continue the tests to see what bacteria it is but will plan on keeping both kids on anti-biotics.  Scarlett's C-RP numbers came down significantly to a number we would like to see but we are going to assume they both have infections unless we find out differently.

Lastly, the doctor decided to do an ultrasound on Scarlett's liver.  She said no one else seemed to pick up on it, but her liver looked a little strange and enlarged.  We should get those results tomorrow.

I am incredibly thankful for the staff we have taking care of them.  Many of these checks are done very early and they catch things before they get bad.