s that we wanted to share. The good news so far today is that Ethan will be moved into Allison's room. There are slightly smaller incubators that we can use to fit them both in one room so we can have more opportunities to take pictures like these.Allison is growing strong and will continue to "nuzzle" to practice breastfeeding. Her other goal in the coming days is to regulate her own body temperature. Once she handles that, she'll be moved to an open-air crib, which will be good. She's stable enough now that Lisa and I can reach in and pick her up whenever we want, provided that we watch out for her monitor wires.
Ethan had a good night last night, as his PDA valve in his heart continues to close. The doctors feel that the best course of action is to continue to let him close the valve on his own, without surgically intervening, since he has been very successful at breathing with only a canula. This is very, very welcome news as Lisa and I both breathed a little easier when learning of this. Sandy, one of his nurses, is going to try again to put in a PICC line (IV) into Ethan's arm so that he won't have to be "stuck" so many times with a needle for all of his tests.
-Chris
Dear Klostermann Family,
ReplyDeleteWe are very excited with the great news about Allison and Ethan, it seems from what you post that they are both doing really well. Strong little people they are.
We can't wait to meet them, keep up the blog it's great!
All our love,
Brett, Sonia and Olivia Schminke