Jill and I started our class assignments yesterday. We took the "Homeward Bound" class which has many topics. It started off teaching us about "Shaking Baby Syndrome", then we covered "RSV". RSV is a virus that happens mostly in the winter time to babies that are mostly born premature. It covered the RSV vaccination that is given throughout the winter up until the baby reaches two years old. They tought us all the do's and don'ts of having a premature baby. After the Homeward Bound class we took "Infant CPR". I have been certified in CPR a couple of years back but it was a good refresher class for me. We learned how to give CPR to our babies if they should ever need it. I hope we never need it but it is good to know. We also learned how to help a choking baby as well. They gave us practice dolls and we had to watch a DVD to learn these important steps. Today, Wednesday we will be taking a "Car Seat Class. I'm sure there are some important parts of car seat safety that we need to know. In the NICU before you are discharged the doctors make an order for you to bring your car seats in and have the baby sit in them for an hour. During this time they watch the monitors to see how well your baby does in a car seat.
The boys are doing good. They dropped Emerson's air flow back down to three yesterday and will continue to do so until he stops having heart rate drops. Brayson is still doing really good in the crib. The boys are still gaining weight. Brayson is now weighing around 5lbs 12oz, Emerson is up to 4lbs 9oz, and Cooper is 4lbs 13oz. Jill talked to the head neonatologist last night when leaving the hospital. His name is Dr. Whitehurst. Jill was asking him when he thought that Emerson and Cooper would be in a crib like Brayson? Jill told him how much they weighed and he said "I do not know why they have not tried them in a crib yet but he would check on it for us". So I think in the next week we should all be in cribs. That would be a huge step.
I've got to go to the class and will update pictures later.
Thanks for the prayers and keep them coming.
Jill and Amon
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