Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Meet Kai Leo





He came into this world a little early at just shy of 26 weeks. Today he is 13 days old. He was born at Stanford Hospital on May 8th, Mother's day (just like Kirra) at 9:10am weighing 2.2lbs and 12in long. 

He's been in the NICU since and has been doing really well given his gestational age and is on relatively low settings on the ventilator. An ultrasound on his head found he has a "grade 4 bilateral bleed" (IVH) in his brain. His outcome with this is indeterminable yet damage has already been done. He also has a PDA in his heart that we are hoping will close with the help of 
 indomethacin a special form of ibuprofen
Today he had an ultrasound on his heart to see if it has closed, but no results yet. Another ultrasound was taken on his brain and there are no significant changes with the bleed.

I get to hold him once a day so that he gets skin-to-skin contact with me a.k.a Kangaroo Care and its really a special moment. I have also been pumping breast milk in hopes he will soon get to use it. Studies show male preemies' IQ is much higher when fed breast milk! I find out tomorrow if he gets to start milk feeds.

I will give updates on Kai, but for now prayers are welcomed!

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