Category: Daily Updates
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And at Long Last
We’re home, all of us. The Squires Family Five. We love you, team. Thank you for every little thing, every word and wish and warm cheer that carried us through to this moment. Thank you. More tomorrow. Off to help two small babies spend their first real night in their first real home. Lucy meeting…
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THE Update!
Chronological age: 60 days / Adjusted age: -2 weeks and 2 days Family and friends, we just learned that after a week or two of staggered growth and bouts of “Bradies” (spells of slowed/stopped heart rate due to underdeveloped nervous systems), the girls’ overall meaningful and blessed improvement means the girls may be coming home,…
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Etc.
Chronological age: 55 days / Adjusted age: -3 weeks Hi, you robins! Hoping this post finds you in the sunshine and welcoming spring. Along the way we’ve received a handful of frequent questions, the answers to which we thought could be useful to share in one place. Without further ado, a few Q&As are below…
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Spring-ish
Chronological age: 45 days / Adjusted age: -4 weeks and 2 days Tomorrow is April and still this ground, its shoulders hunched, just aches to thaw. It remains winter here, the sun bright and bracing and unyieldingly cold. And yet seventy miles south in Green Bay, two small sprouts are tucked away in real cribs…
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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…
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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…
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One Week Old
There are so many updates to share here, scenes from a week that couldn’t possibly follow laws of space and time. We will include a bunch of real detail here tomorrow, but in brief now: Button, small and so fierce, is holding strong, CPAP in place but arms wild. Her status continues to be of…
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Three Days Old
We write this from the NICU, where Button and Bear are settled in bays 14 and 15, their isolettes tucked under blankets and alive with wires, blinking lights, and two small girls. For the moment, this is their home. It is here – rather than within the vague charcoal sketches of an ultrasound – that…
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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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