The girls were born on November 16th, 2007, 16 weeks early. Mallory Kate – 1 lb 8 oz, Evan Reese – 1 lb 1 oz, and Kelby Grace – 1 lb 5 oz. Upon their delivery, Mallory and Kelby were transferred to St. David’s South and were doing fairly well considering the circumstances. Our little Evan Reese was a fighter, but she had a lot of problems and she was with us for about 5 hours. We love you Evan and we miss you everyday, but we know we’ll see you again one day. Mallory and Kelby both went through a lot in their 105 day stay in the hospital, from heart surgeries, to brain bleeds, to infections. Many prayers were answered and we thank God everyday for everything He has done for them. Today they are perfectly healthy and growing bigger and stronger everyday. We started this blog to keep everybody updated on their progress. You can scroll down to the bottom of the page for a slideshow from the NICU days.

Monday, February 23, 2009

Wonder how much this will cost us?

The girls have had the stomach bug for the last week and a half. They were great sick babies only fussy off and on. Mainly just spent time changing sheets and diapers but we are on the mend!! Praise God!! Kelby is back 100% and Mallory is almost there still getting sick every now and then, which brings me to the point of this post.

Over the weekend Mallory was very inconsolable to put it mildly, mainly at night. We figured it was ears, as nothing else seemed to comfort her. This morning she woke up on the complete wrong side of the crib and was not in the mood for anything. After a very unusual four hour nap I decided a doctor's visit was worth $30 to see what was wrong. Dr. Dudley did a full check up and everything looked normal. Due to her behavior over the weekend Dr. Dudley was concerned she might have a bowl obstruction. To be on the safe side we went for x-rays. After several pictures of her tummy, and three hours later we have found out that she just needs to poop! We are very thankful that everything came back normal and am guessing during all of the x-rays this is what she was trying to tell me. "Nothing is wrong! I just have to poop!" Lord only knows how much this poop cost us!

2 comments:

Laura said...

Sorry you had so much trouble! Kind-of funny though in a sad way...Hope they are both 100% soon!

Unknown said...

I am sorry there was so much sadness but this post made me laugh out loud! Your girls too cute!