Prayers for Luke: NICU day 8

Poor little Luke. I got a phone call this morning at 6:15am from the nurse letting me know that Luke had a rough night with his breathing. He was taken off the nose tube and put back on the mouth breathing tube along with the support of 85% oxygen. The babies haven't really needed any oxygen support since they were born so this was definitely a step backwards for him. They took an X-ray and it showed that his left lung was still storing small pockets of air and it's not allowing much air to get through. He is doing okay so far..

The best feeling in the World!

On the other hand, I got to start Kangaroo Care with Carter last night. They placed him inside of my shirt for one hour and he just slept; well I took a small nap too. His heartrate was great and the nurse said he was just lovin' every minute of that closeness. The bottom picture was after we took him out of my shirt and took the blankets off. Isn't he tiny?? Not the best pic of me..by any means..I look pale and sick. But whose looking at me, right??

My tiny little twin # 1

I'm off to the hospital to check on Luke in a little bit. I feel like I live at the hospital..........

Today at the hospital was a little rough. They had all these screens around Luke for sterile purposes. But to anyone who didn't know what was going it, it looked like a really big deal as my baby was all blocked off for anyone to see him. Blinds were closed all around...ugh! They were inserting an IV in his other arm for feeding purposes. They took a second x-ray of his lungs and they were looking much better this afternoon. Both babies have the IV in their arms now for better feeding. They take a small tube out of their umbilical chords and use the IV for the same purpose.

7:30pm..off to the hospital to read some bedtime stories.