5th Day of Life

Thursday, Jan 9th, 2020

We’ve now had our boys for 5 whole days! Not a lot has changed but I figured a quick update wouldn’t hurt. Right now I have three boys in my life in 3 different hospitals (Alex is having surgery on his broken finger today, nothing serious! Just don’t let your spouse play basketball when your pregnant 🤦🏼‍♀️) and my mom is the worlds best chauffeur to drive between them all to help me check on everyone.

Cooper: Cooper is still really struggling to get his feedings in. They both have a minimum amount of food they need to eat every 3 hours and if Cooper doesn’t meet his goal amounts, he is fed through his nose tube. Just to put it in perspective, Cooper is required to eat 45ml of formula and he’s been averaging anywhere from 15 to 25ml. His body had no problems processing that amount (they use the tube to check how much is in his stomach before they feed him, and it’s always empty), he just needs to get his mouth coordinated enough to eat on his own.

Crew: We we’re hoping and praying that Crew would get to come home with us today and he reached all of the goals they set for him, but when we got here this morning we were informed that while he met his goals, they wanted to up the amount he was eating and give him a higher calorie formula before he got to go home. I’m not going to lie, having my hopes up that he could come home only to find out I’d be leaving the hospital once again with no baby made me cry.

Both of our boys are healthy and growing and improving and we aren’t worried about them long term. We know they’ll make it home and they don’t have any complications for which we are incredibly grateful. Right now is just a waiting game for them to get to the point to where they get to come home to us.

We have had a lot of people ask how they can help and right now the only thing I can ask for is prayers that these boys to get healthy enough to come home. We love and appreciate each person who is thinking of us at this time.♥️