Ok, first and foremost, HUGE congratulations to Aunt Katie and Uncle Chandler on their big wedding day, August 4th!!! So good. Fun to see family and friends, and feel (again) of the outpouring of love and support.
Yesterday and today they did "growth labs" on the twins, and it's about like it sounds -nothing too exciting.
As of today, Emery is 3 lbs 9 oz and Collin is 4 lb 2 oz. As of late we feel like Collin has caught up pretty well to Emery... he has been eating well, his systems are adjusting nicely, he's slowly been gaining weight (and losing some of the water weight he had retained). He's been more awake, more alert, etc. So fun to hold. Erin and I both got to hold him for a while on Sunday (and put some of us to sleep for a joint nap in the process, ahem...). Lots of fun.
So Emery's phosphorous levels were a little high today. What does that mean exactly? Well, that could potentially be an indicator of low bone density. Yes, the human body (and its development) continues to fascinate and amaze. It's just something they'll keep watching.
The curve ball of the day? Well, it turns out that in the 'echo' (heart ultrasound, basically) they did for Emery revealed that she too has a PDA. The very same thing we had been so concerned with for Collin, little sister has been hiding from us this whole time! :) The bad news is that she's a little past the age when they feel the medication (Indocin) is effective, so we'll just sort of wait it out and see if it closes itself. The good news is that as we have continually heard, she has had nothing close to any setbacks or distress or detrimental signs that would be discouraging.
So for now we continue to hope and pray that both their little hearts may somehow heal themselves (it could happen, we're told). Otherwise, it's probably some follow up with a pediatric cardiologist when they are 4-6 months old.
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