Day 15

A bit of more bad news for Wren today.  First that poor girl had a staph. aureus infection for pneumonia in her lungs that spread to her blood, and today we learned that she has also been found to have a brain hemorrhage.  Hers is not as bad as Avery's -- it's only a stage 2 bleed, which means that blood is seeping into the ventricles the brain, but not directly into the brain matter itself.  There may have been some level of brain damage as a result, or it may have been pretty minimal, it's unclear at this point. The doctor thinks that the bleeding may have started when she started fighting the infection and subsequently was low on oxygen, but he thinks it's more likely that it's just that it occurred soon after her last head ultrasound around day 5 or so. She is still on antibiotics and dopamine, but in terms of symptoms, she's actually doing a bit better than she was yesterday still.  We remain hopeful that she will get back to good.

Avery was very active and awake today while we were there.  She is still growing somewhat and only getting a tiny amount of food, but seems to be doing pretty good despite taking the neoprofin.  It's not clear if the drug has made a difference for her either, so we may end up needing both girls to have a surgery to take care of that once they are both feeling a bit better.  Avery opened her eyes up wider than I've ever seen today.  Also, she tolerated eating food today and actually digested it for the first time.  That's a great step for her!

We love our babies.  It makes me feel great to hear my kids talk about their baby sisters and to say perfect little prayers for them, like when Penny asks God for "Wen" to fight her sickness and for "Avewy's" brain to stop bleeding.  Like our kids, we trust in God that things will work out for them according to his plan and in his time.  While we don't yet know what that will mean for their future, we will hold out hope that the very best can and will occur, and will take whatever comes.