Thursday, May 26th

Gimmie All Your Blood!!

Nik received a blood transfusion today of 15 ml via IV in his right arm at 9:30 am.  Hopefully this will help his O2 levels stay up.  He has been desaturating and dropping his heart rate for the past 2 days.  He has also been super pale over the past couple days as well due to not having enough red blood cells to carry the oxygen.  In babies the bone marrow doesn't start producing red blood cells till in the 30 plus week gestation age.  So our babies, born at 26 weeks are unable to produce their own blood.  Therefore, needing blood transfusions a couple times over their stay in the NICU.  Hopefully this blood transfusion will help him have an easier time.  Jason and I will be by his bed all day.

Jake on the other hand is cruzing along okay.  His O2 sat level has usually remained in the high 90's.  Boys are feeding well and tolerating their feedings.  Great news!
NIK - 14 mls
JAKE - 21 mls

At 5:30pm Nik desatted & crashed.  He stopped breathing and his heart rate dropped super low.  Took a lot of stimulation and work to get him going again.  He's holding steady for now.  He has a blood test tomorrow morning to check his hematocrit level again.  If they are still down they will transfuse him again.  We'll see.  I just want him to keep breathing.