The girls had a rough night, or at least I did... Last night Madelyn's belly was distended so they did an x-ray. It turned out to be nothing. Then they re-did her blood work and she had dropped 4 points since Tuesday. Because of this, she received a blood transfusion last night. We were going to try to find a donor that we knew, but it takes 4 days and we didn't want to hold off. Emma's blood work came back borderline again so they decided this morning to do a transfusion on her as well. It's very upsetting to me to think about my tiny little girls going through this, but we've been told over and over that this is pretty standard and that they are surprised they haven't had to do any yet. Sometimes it can require 2-3 transfusions. This may be what is causing their O2 levels to stick around 35% and Emma's "puffiness". They should be showing signs of change in the next day or so. Emma also got put back into her isolette last night because she was not maintaining her temperature. I am hoping that this will get them moving along a little faster and home to us sooner.
On a totally different note, congratulations to my brother and sister-n-law who found out this morning they'll be adding a baby boy to our family!
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i hope so much that everything starts heading in the right direction soon, so you can get those sweeties home!!!
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