March 16, 2011 - 12 Days Old

In my last entry, Jasmine had just started throwing up. She threw up several more times that night and Amaraa threw up in the morning. It looks like we're past the worst of it, though. It must have just been a 24-hour bug. Skylar had it a couple of days earlier.

The kids have been so happy to have their mom home again. Jasmine holds onto Amaraa's walker and "helps" her walk around the house. She doesn't leave Amaraa's side. Jasmine has probably suffered the most from Amaraa being in the hospital because Skylar was able to go to the hospital with me to visit more often than she was.

This morning, we went to the hospital to visit Aiden before Amaraa had to go for a blood test at the doctor's office. We weren't able to spend a lot of time with him, but Amaraa was able to hold him for a few minutes. When we got there, he was in an incubator. They said they had put him in the incubator because it was the closest thing they had to the womb. The nurse said he will grow better in there. He will be there until he is 1800 grams. He's now about 1280. He's still under his birth weight, but he is gaining. Amaraa held him for a few minutes before we had to go to her appointment. He could smell his mommy and was rooting a little bit. Amaraa gave him his binkie and he sucked on it for a while. He was sucking pretty well. In a couple of weeks, Amaraa will probably be able to start nursing him. For now, they just give him her milk through a feeding tube.

We went to the Physicians Plaza at the hospital for Amaraa's blood test. She has been on blood thinners to dissolve a clot she has in one of her ovaries. They had to test her blood thickness to see if the blood thinners were doing their job. The results were good. After the test, we drove to Skylar's school to pick him up. We had forgotten that it was "early out" day for him, so by the time we got there, he had been waiting for 45 minutes. Oops! Life has been crazy for us lately. Hopefully he will forgive us and won't be permanently scarred.

After picking Skylar up, Amaraa had another doctor's appointment with the OB she was seeing before we were transferred to the Regional Hospital. He had talked to one of Amaraa's doctors about all that had happened and was just happy to see that she was OK. He told her she was very lucky to be alive with all the blood she had lost and everything that had gone on. He took the adhesive strips off of her incision and said it was looking good.

We're planning another trip to see Aiden tomorrow. Things are looking up!