nursejackson
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Hi my name is Lindsey and I just recently delivered fraternal boy and girl twins at 34 weeks and 1 day on March 6th. They are currently in the NICU and I am getting so frustrated because Saturday it will be 2 weeks since they've been born and no signs of them coming home soon. Tonight I drove home crying the whole way. I just want my babies home!
Here's my story, at 33 weeks and 4 days I had gone to work and was having what I thought was braxton hicks but they were occurring all morning and wouldn't let up so at lunch I asked to go home and since I worked down the road from my OB i went and visited. They checked me and I was dilated to a 3-4 and sent me to the hospital right away. Started me on magnesium sulfate which totally sucked. Was on it for 2 and a half days to stop labor until I got all my steroid injections which I did. By saturday the contractions were back and the babies were not allowing me to dilate so the dr decided to do a c-section and by then I was relieved because the pain and exhaustion was horrifying! But now I regret it because my babies aren't home with me and my husband and 5 year old daughter.
They were both intubated so that was hard seeing tubes down their throats. Naomi is our girl and Noah is our boy. They both ended up with PDA (patent ductus arteriosis) which kept them on the vent while they received the medicine to help close it. Naomi's closed pretty quickly and after about 4 days on the vent she was extubated. Now after almost 2 weeks Naomi is off all oxygen support and is just having to get bottle feeding down. She is currently getting 2 bottles a day of 41 ml's of breast milk. She ahs to take 8 bottles a day before coming home and she has to eat a whole bottle before they up her anymore bottles a day. She's only up to 28 ml's. Tonight was a setback I feel because she had over half of last feeding left in her stomach. I just would like to know when she might come home. 1, 2, or 3 weeks? No clue, no one tells us except expect them home around your due date, well that's not acceptable to me when my due date was April 17th!
Noah is on a CPAP machine and seems to be doing well but they haven't changed any of his settings in the past 2 days and not doing anymore blood draws right now so when are they going to change that? He's on 21 ml's of breast milk per tube down his throat. Once he's off the oxygen support he can start bottle feeds. I just would love to know when my babies might be home. I know it's not possible to know but this waiting is really frustrating. I only have 12 weeks off from work and I feel this is cutting into my maternity leave and by the time they are home I will have to go back to work. Then travelling 20 minutes one way to the hospital to visit as much as I can, having a 5 year old daughter that can't go into the NICU at all so giving her the attention she needs has been hard, having a house that needs to be picked up and a nursery to work on that is not even close to being done has been so exhausting! I'm looking for some support from other parents that have gone or experiencing what I am. I'm getting tired of talking to people that have no clue what I'm going through. Thanks for letting me vent, I feel much better!
Here's my story, at 33 weeks and 4 days I had gone to work and was having what I thought was braxton hicks but they were occurring all morning and wouldn't let up so at lunch I asked to go home and since I worked down the road from my OB i went and visited. They checked me and I was dilated to a 3-4 and sent me to the hospital right away. Started me on magnesium sulfate which totally sucked. Was on it for 2 and a half days to stop labor until I got all my steroid injections which I did. By saturday the contractions were back and the babies were not allowing me to dilate so the dr decided to do a c-section and by then I was relieved because the pain and exhaustion was horrifying! But now I regret it because my babies aren't home with me and my husband and 5 year old daughter.
They were both intubated so that was hard seeing tubes down their throats. Naomi is our girl and Noah is our boy. They both ended up with PDA (patent ductus arteriosis) which kept them on the vent while they received the medicine to help close it. Naomi's closed pretty quickly and after about 4 days on the vent she was extubated. Now after almost 2 weeks Naomi is off all oxygen support and is just having to get bottle feeding down. She is currently getting 2 bottles a day of 41 ml's of breast milk. She ahs to take 8 bottles a day before coming home and she has to eat a whole bottle before they up her anymore bottles a day. She's only up to 28 ml's. Tonight was a setback I feel because she had over half of last feeding left in her stomach. I just would like to know when she might come home. 1, 2, or 3 weeks? No clue, no one tells us except expect them home around your due date, well that's not acceptable to me when my due date was April 17th!
Noah is on a CPAP machine and seems to be doing well but they haven't changed any of his settings in the past 2 days and not doing anymore blood draws right now so when are they going to change that? He's on 21 ml's of breast milk per tube down his throat. Once he's off the oxygen support he can start bottle feeds. I just would love to know when my babies might be home. I know it's not possible to know but this waiting is really frustrating. I only have 12 weeks off from work and I feel this is cutting into my maternity leave and by the time they are home I will have to go back to work. Then travelling 20 minutes one way to the hospital to visit as much as I can, having a 5 year old daughter that can't go into the NICU at all so giving her the attention she needs has been hard, having a house that needs to be picked up and a nursery to work on that is not even close to being done has been so exhausting! I'm looking for some support from other parents that have gone or experiencing what I am. I'm getting tired of talking to people that have no clue what I'm going through. Thanks for letting me vent, I feel much better!
