!!!Merry Christmas!!!
Merry Christmas everyone! I hope everyone has had a great day visiting with family and friends. Last night we had Christmas with Mark’s mom side. Had a great dinner of Italian food, great company too. Ayden got some really nice gifts such as some clothes, a music snow globe ball and we would like to thank everyone for a great time. This morning Mark and I got up and had our Christmas together at home. I got Mark a Blue Ray DVD player with a few movies. Mark got me two new faries and also a wonderful beautiful picture that he made for me of a fairy. I love it so much. It’s already hung on the wall!!! After we had our time at home, Mark and I traveled to Oakville to visit with my family for Christmas. What a great morning. My dad and Lyli made a really...
Christmas Eve and 31 Weeks Old!!!!
Well our little guy is now 42 days old!!! wow – that’s awesome what a great christmas eve day this has been… well except for the two hours of shoveling I did this morning at from 5:30 till 7:30am. But after that and a shower I’m doing much better. Lindsay and I zipped out quickly to the stores – I wanted to get lindsay to pick out a new fairy for her collection. And Seeing as I enjoy looking at them too – that makes it kinda for the both of us. After that we headed up to Mac to see how Ayden was doing. What a drive there – everything is all wet and melty and then it started to rain… rain on Christmas eve… what’s that all about? But we got there in one piece. When we got up to the ward, we bumped into Dr...
One Day Away from 31 weeks…
Ya, I get to write a post 😀 – So I called tonight and had a chance to talk with Julie tonight, who totally rocks. She really takes great care with Ayden.. and like charlie, Ayden has a few of his own Angels, lol. So we were told tonight that the little feller has gone up in weight, and is now sitting at 1370grams or 3.02 lbs. So he’s getting there.. it’s crazy to think some babies come out 7, 8 or even 9 or more pounds… that’s nuts… I think mom mentioned that he’s started to make his own red blood cells.. which is pretty awesome little dude. He’s eating 15mils of Milk every 90 mins which Mom worked out to be 3/4 of a cup of milk a day… FYI Lindsay makes that in one of her pumping’s So he’s still...
December 22nd update
Well seems that Ayden is still doing really well. His oxygen is fluctuating between 22-35% and that all depends on how he is lying. If he is lying on his tummy, his oxygen is lower then when he is lying on his back… they did some blood work today and it seems that his hemoglobin is a bit low. Normally for a preemie they would do a blood transfusion (which Ayden has already had 2), but they have also found that Ayden is now making his own blood. Normally with preemies because their systems are not developed they don’t make blood very fast and with all the blood work being done by the NICU they have to replace it somehow..so they do a blood transfusion to replace the blood they have taken. Well I guess that Ayden is now starting to make his own blood so...
December 20th 38 days old
Well, Finally after all of the hospital visits and surgery I got to see my little boy today. He looks so much bigger to me!!! I mean, his body is still so tiny and he is not even 3 pounds yet, but the last week and a half has added a little tiny bit of baby chubb to Ayden! So he is doing really well. He is out of his kanagaroo bed and is now in a regular incubator. His weight as of today is 1290 grams and he is eating 14 mils of milk every hour and a half. His oxygen is down to about 22-25%, he is still swinging but that is considered normal and on par for his gestional age. Because of the surgery my body is really weak and healing so I was not able to hold Ayden today but I did rub his little back and play with his feet and hands. Oh…Ayden now has...