We are Home!!

Sorry for the delay!! We have been home since the 1st of September. Kenna came home on oxygen and a monitor and things have been good ever since. She is now weighing 6#6oz as of discharge day. Once I get everything at home hooked back up I will post some pictures and get a longer blog on here.

How about some pictures!!

Well I'm finally able to give you all some pictures of MaKenna. However keep in mind that the last ones taken that are actually on a disk are on July 12. So she is way bigger and differnt now. Not so alien looking! lol I can say that because she is my daughter!!

That will have to do for now someone else needs to get on here!

Just Peachy!!

That is exactly how things are over here. Things for the most part are stable, with just a few of her "attitude moments". I seriously think she just misses her nurses by her side ALL the time! Because once they get closer to her she manages to pull everything back up. Again she is really spoiled in there. I guess that can happen when you are one of 3 babies who have been there for over a month. She is now up to a whole 4# 10 oz as of last night, and 17 inches. And has the cutest chubby checks now! I would love to put some pictures on here, but again I can't because there is no loading stuff onto the computer at the McDonald house! So you ll just have to wait!!

Her feeding are hit and miss, depending on how her days are going, and she is up to 41ml of fortified breast milk and it taking it over 30 minutes. Which is down from the 1.5 hours when she started. Her feedings increase daily depending on her weight gain. They have stopped her caffeine as of last night and so far we really haven't noticed a difference in her. If things start to change the plan is to put her back on it.

That's all the time I have so I hope that everyone is good!!

We have graduated!!

Not so much from the NICU but from the ever so cute micro preemie diapers to the standard preemie ones. I actually used the last one on Monday so this comes a little late!! Sorry! Little "pork chop" is now 3# 15 oz. So hopefully tomorrow I will finally have a 4 pound baby.

I guess it time to update

Sorry I'm such a slacker these days, but can you really blame me! First off I want to send out Congratulations to the Milbradt family on the arrival of their little boy! Megan if your reading this I'm so happy for you guys and he is so cute!! Haven't had the time to leave you a message either! Sorry. But if anyone wants to head over and congratulate them you will need to click on Megans' link on the right side of my blog. I'm honestly to lazy today to link it up for you all.

Now lil miss MaKenna is up to 3# 11.5 oz as of this morning! They increased her caffeine while I was home last week (yep you read right I went home) and by Friday it finally kicked in and her spells have lessened. In fact she only had 4 major ones all day yesterday. They say its the caffeine but it maybe that she is finally starting to out grow the apena and brady episodes since she is 33.1 weeks gestation now. Time will tell. They were also able to lower her flow rate from 3 liter's to 1 liter in one week. They have slowed down on the weaning for a few days because her respiratory rate has increased a little and they don't want her to work to much yet. She is up to 33ml of breast milk per feeding with 24 calories. She prefers fresh over frozen and must be held during feedings or she doesn't digest it all. Can we all say spoiled!!

Alright well I'm off to do some grocery shopping. Sorry for such a shot update but I also have Will here as well so my time is even shorter.

We hit 3 pounds!!

Little miss has been hanging around at 2lbs 15.5oz for the last two days and just this morning she finally went up. She is such a turkey! Everything else with her is good. Dr. Carrol increased the high flow cannula to 3 liters last week, still on room O2 though. He had hoped that it would help with her apena and brady episodes. It really hasn't, its only pushing more air into her little tummy. So he is now in the process of weaning it back down. Up and down we go. He was joking with me yesterday on how much MaKenna reminds him of William when he was there! My how they have a good memory. Her calories have also been increased now to 24, I can't remember if I had put that on the last post or not, if so sorry! And its actually causing my breast milk to turn pink, if that is TMI sorry! Kayla saw it this morning and asked the nurse if she was giving her sister strawberry milk!! We all got a good laugh from it. Dr. Carrol is also throwing around the idea of starting her on medication for acid reflux, besides her spitting during feedings he thinks that may also be causing some of her other apena and brady spells since they are only happening during feeding time. We shall see.

In other news I have MaKayla up here with me this week. I think that a week off of a somewhat normal schedule is not for this child. She hasn't been sleeping that much or eating that great. And usually she is the best with both of all my kids. It has been a constant struggle every day. Not that I"m not enjoying my alone time with her I think she just gets tired of going over to the hospital and misses Will and Madison to play with. So today I walked her cute little butt over to the daycare across from the house and begged them to take the child! There wasn't much begging to be done they were more than willing to take her so I can regain my sanity!! She was more than excited to have kids to play with. I just hope that it goes well, since its her first time in daycare.

Rachelle

How about an update!

I bet you all would like that! Hopefully tomorrow I will find some time! Sorry!!

Rachelle