The boys have been doing well! We have really just been in quite an un-eventful phase. Which is extremely boring but I am grateful for un-eventful! They will be 33 weeks gestational age tomorrow and 6 weeks old on Monday. Everything inside the nicu pretty well goes by gestational age though. They have both been switched over to a lower level incubator. They took Blair off oxygen on Monday the 6th and he has been doing very well with that ever since! That is a HUGE step to not have to require oxygen! They took Jace off his RAM cannula on Tuesday the 7th and trialed him on a high flow nasal cannula but he just isn't quite ready for that respiratory wise so they had to put him back on the RAM cannula again yesterday morning. He has been having a lot of apnea spells the 3 days and they told me today his hematocrit was pretty low so that could be contributing to it. They will check his hematocrit again Monday and keep following it. The nurse practitioner told me they try to hold off as long as possible on giving them blood transfusions because they really want their body to try hard and re create their own red blood cells and if they have a transfusion their body thinks it doesn't need to make red blood cells. So we are hoping for that to go up and for his body to keep working at it on making those cells. They will both get their eyes checked again next Tuesday the 14th. Other than that we are just watching them eat, sleep, and grow! We have been here 40 days and hopefully the rest go by fast!!
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