Conor and Kaleb
Posted by kim on May 27, 2008
Connor and Kaleb were born at 33 weeks on April 9, 2008 weighing in at 3.2 and 3.12 lbs. They delievered me because Conor was measuring 2.13 and Kaleb was measuring 4.7 but thats a huge difference to what they came out at. At first they started off great. They were only on c-pap machines for a few days. Everything was going great, until they got bloody stools. The doctor’s said it was a mild form of necrotizing entercolitis and they were put on bowel rest for 10 days. Even on the bowel rest they were still having positive stools and doctors really didnt know what was going on. Kaleb continued to have piositive but they gradually increased his feeds, slower than his brother Conor. Kaleb then developed an infection and was on antibiotics for three days. They did his blood culture and it came back negative. Conor is smaller but is kicking butt. He was moved into a crib first and fed with a bottle first. They both also tested positive for CMV so now they are isolated which sucks i mean we get our own room, but still we have to wear gloves to hold our babies. The both have already passed their hearing tests. And they finally have started discharge procedures. We have to get them up to at leat 22,000 grams so they can get their hep b vaccine. They will finally be coming home after 5 weeks in the hospital. When originally it was only supposed to be 2-3 because they had been doing so well. Conor may come home a couple of days before Kaleb but we’ll see, they have to pass their carseat tests first. Truthfully there is more to the story, but these are the basics, it has been a rough ride.
