Minor setback.. but not too bad.

Things seem to be heating up here in the push to get babies home. The NICU here was approaching full last Wednesday, so in an effort to get the twins into level 2 (where they could be transferred to a BC hospital) they put them both on an aggressive push to stay on low-flow oxygen, and get off the Si-Pap machine. Dillon has made it through today (5 days), but Madeleine crashed overnight, and took a step backwards onto getting rate assisted Si-Pap, something she has not been on for weeks. They feel that they just pushed her too far, and she got exhausted. She had also just had a shot on Wednesday, so she was already feeling under the weather prior to the push.

She has now rested for a few days and they are trying her on 6 hour stints of low-flow at a time, and she seems to be doing well each time. Dillon has progressed well and is now on day 5 of straight low-flow. He has also been moved out of his incubator and is in regular baby bed (sort of like a plastic shoebox). Its much noiser being outside his sealed incubator, with all the nurses talking and other babies in the pod ringing high or low on their stats, but he seems to be able to sleep through it all. Good training for living in our noisy house!

He is now technically in level 2, but because Madeleine is in level 3, he inherits that status as they are always kept together. If she can get on low-flow over the next week or so, we are in a position to transfer back to a BC hospital.

I got to hold both of them together a few times over the weekend. It was amazing. They both do really well when then they settle in next to each other, and are comfortable feeling each other's faces and hands. Here's a few pics of them hanging out with Dad.



Dillon in his big boy bed..