Welcome to the Lily and Eve page!

In the interim, until our Web site is completed, Eric and I have decided to keep friends and family updated on the condition of our babies -- Lillian Page Mostaccio and Evelyn Michaela Mostaccio -- through this blog! We will try to update the page with the girls conditions in NICU, with pictures, and with how Mommy and Daddy are doing at home. And what better way to start than to give an update on how the girls are doing today?

May 27, 2007: Around 10 a.m.

A call to the NICU revealed that Lily has been moved from an open warming bed to an isolette. The nurse said babies are moved to the isolette when they are more stable, breathing better and ready for a little less intervention. Lily is still on CPAP, but I believe I heard the nurse say something like one percent. Here's hoping she moves to a nasal canula soon so we can see her whole beautiful face! She is having some feed intolerance. They were feeding her about every 3 hours, but skipping some feeds because of digestion problems. She was getting 1-2 mL of breast milk. I hope she will tolerate it better in the coming days. She is getting suppositories to make her move her bowels, but the nurse said she is doing well. Lily has a PIC line in now, so they don have to keep sticking her for blood and whatnot. She has gained "quite a bit of weight" the nurse said, but she isn't sure if it is going to please the doctors or not. She has been getting fluids, so some of that weight could be fluid weight.

Eve is still on a warming bed, but she too is off the ventilator and on CPAP as of 1 p.m. yesterday. Eve is tolerating food a little better it seems, taking 3 mL or so and only skipping a few feeds. She lost some weight overnight, but is still over her birth weight at 3 pounds 11 ounces. She too has a PIC line and it doesn't sound like she is contending with jaundice again just now. Eve is doing well too the doctor said.

The most EXCITING News. Lily's nurse said we could HOLD HER when we come in today to see her. I haven't been able to hold either baby yet and I have been anxiously awaiting the day I could. I can NOT wait to go up there and hold those girls. I am going to ask Eve's nurse as well. Hopefully both girls will tolerate the holding. It will be the first time nad they are still rather young gestationally. So they might not be too happy with that much skin interaction. We shall see. If the docs say it's better not to, I won't.

Well, I'm going to see about including pictures in this thing. I'm still working it out and figuring out how to use Blogspot.com. Hopefully it won't take me too long to decipher!

-Kate