Infection

Today Mason took a big step back. The last few days he has had some issues where he was forgetting to breath and his oxygen levels desaturated. Today he was doing this a lot more and they found that he had a lot of residuals left in his tummy. The Dr's think that he is fighting an infection. Because a preemies neurological system is less developed they can forget to do things such as breathing while they are sick. Because he was forgetting to breath quite a bit early today they decided to put him on a ventilator. I really thought that since the babies are now 11 days old and none of them have needed any breathing assistance that we were going to avoid any of them needing a ventilator... guess I was wrong. Basically what we know right now is that Mason appears to be sick and that he has an infection. He had lab work done to determine what the infection is but that wont be back for a few days. Right now they are giving him a general antibiotic to kill the infection until they know what is actually wrong and they can tailor the medication to the specific issue. This has been a horrible day and I don't think that I have ever cried so much.

The other 2 are still looking good. Alyssa is doing better with her feedings and she hasn't been having any residuals like she was having even yesterday. Kyle is doing great with everything. His feedings have been increased to 28ml and he has been gaining weight.

Also, All babies are above their birth weight now. I was also told that Alyssa is currently the smallest baby in the whole Nicu.