Late Post

I'm getting into the habit of writing these updates later and later each night. I'll need to change that or I'll never get healthy again.  

There's no update on the cultures they were doing to check for MRSA elsewhere. They had said it might take 48 hours. Charlotte is on both vancomycin and gentamicin, prophylactically. Thankfully, her blood culture has still been negative.

Charlotte is up to 5 cc of milk every 3 hours and is tolerating it well. Her most recent weight actually had her just slightly above her birth weight at 1lb 9.5oz :) Her oxygen settings on the CPAP are the lowest of all of them, vacillating between 21% (room air) and 22%. She occasionally has self-limiting desaturations but is "very stable" overall. Dermatology came to look at both her and Thomas due to some nasty diaper rash. They'll likely add an antibiotic cream to the desitin that they are currently using to try to treat/heal it. 

Thomas had his blood transfusion last night and is needing less oxygen from the CPAP since then, between 25 and 26%. He had had some greenish, bilious aspirates, but they assessed that it was probably due to the fact that he wasn't getting food to help push it all down. They started to feed him again (1 cc), and he's been okay since then. Maybe they will be able to increase his amount sometime tomorrow. His sisters are way ahead on the eating game at this stage. However, he's winning on size with a recent weigh in of 2lb 2.5oz! 

Audrey is up to 6.5 cc of milk every 3 hours, and they will continue to increase her amount by .5 cc every 9 hours. She's been between 24 and 28% oxygen on CPAP and has probably had the most braddies and desaturations of them all. However, most of them are self-limiting, and the nurses aren't concerned. Her large PDA is likely the culprit for much of it. Hopefully, all of their PDAs will close on their own in the not too distant future. Oh, and her weight on record was old, so I'll get a fresh one tomorrow. I would think all of her eating would be packing on the grams, but I suppose the equivalent of a few tablespoons (or less than 2oz) for the entire day isn't really that much.  

Charlotte, just taking up all the room in her isolette