Category: Casey

• March 4, 2022

  News from the NICU

  NICU time seems to move slower than most, but the news seems to flow faster. Faster, sadly, than seems reasonable; the minute we compile any real bulletin, the status changes. As of now Bear has improved markedly. She splays herself out widely at all opportunities and can be caught stealing glances at the room during…
• February 26, 2022

  The Bear, the Button, and the Birdie

  Chronological age: 12 days; Adjusted age: -2.2 mos. As the days have accumulated, we have found ourselves in something like a routine. Bear’s and Button’s days are structured around their Cares, which is what the NICU has termed the tri-hourly baby maintenance and feedings they receive throughout the day. Meghan’s day is similarly structured around…
• February 14, 2022

  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…
• February 10, 2022

  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…
• February 8, 2022

  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…
• February 5, 2022

  Day 4 – Date Night

  We’ve officially crossed into the 28th week of pregnancy and with it leapt into the third trimester, and not a moment too soon. The girls scored an 8 out of 8 on their BPP tests, routinely registered healthy heart beats and reassuringly katate’d the organs of their mother throughout the day. However, Baby C’s diastolic…