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Long, long day. We will update with more details tomorrow. Briefly, the girls are stable and well attended to. Meghan is recovering slowly and steadily and finally getting some sleep after only having an hour of it over the last 24. Without further ado, the stars of the show More to follow,
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Squires Family = 3 + 2
Actual age = 1 day At 12:47pm CT, weighing in at 2 lb and 10 oz, Baby C (whose name until finalized will – in this blog, and in the NICU where she needs her own moniker – temporarily be known as ‘Button’) became the 4th member of our family. Just one sweaty OR minute…
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Today is the Day
Gestational age: 29 weeks +2 days We’ve hid from this moment all our too-brief, precious time: This morning our ultrasound revealed significant reverse diastolic flow for Baby C. Dr. Hayes believes that if we don’t deliver today, we could lose her, or both. It’s time. Casey is on his way to the hospital. Delivery will…
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Week One +4 and +5
Gestational age: 29 weeks +1 day Hi, friends. These two days have been a mixed bag of news – largely a wonderful one. A bag full of mostly kittens. Or the happy noises Lucy makes while she’s eating spaghetti. Yesterday Dr. Hayes granted us our first empirical goal post: If Baby C continued to show…
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A Day in the Life
Hi All – Some of you have asked how the rhythm of this experience has been, what a day looks like from the inside. Below is my daily run of show. ___________________________________________________ 24/7 – Oxygen therapy; 12am – 9:30am – Fasting 1am – Monitoring + Vitals Monitoring: Paddles (or monitors) are strapped to my belly…
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Week One +3
Gestational age: 28 weeks +6 days In celebration of another mundane day (“oxygenation of these babies is really working,” says Dr. Hayes proudly, me adjusting the cannula that now feels like part of my face), a melody is linked below that means a lot to this family. This song played randomly from a playlist of…
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Week 1 +2
Gestational age: 28 weeks +5 days An uneventful day on the medical front; just how we like them. Today’s doppler showed stable intermittence in Baby C’s umbilical blood flow, or plainly put, no change. Likewise, for the first time since this began, no change to the treatment plan. On the family front, it was road…
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Week One + 1
Gestational age: 28 weeks +4 days THEY GREW! Today was our first weigh-in since arrival, when we received the heartbreaking news that though Baby B had recently grown to 2 lb 14 oz, C had stalled at 1 lb 15 oz for well over a week. Dr. Hayes has been clear that our aim here…
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Week 1
Gestational Age 28 weeks +3 days One week has elapsed since our lunch plans were so rudely interrupted by Dr. Hayes’ sudden hospitalization order, and while it has been a hard week we are thankful that it has added precious incubation time for our girls. We’d happily take another week if the results would repeat…
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Day 6
Gestational age: 28 weeks +2 days Another partially-cloudy, silver medal, red-ribbon day – and we’ll take it. Baby C continues to show intermittent diastolic flow (the least-dangerous stage of this very dangerous condition, and the one that buys us the most time), so Dr. Hayes happily wished us “another exceptionally boring day.” The held-breath status…
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