I know that several of you have been wondering how the Nordhaus babies are doing. Below is an email that was sent to us from Jamey's cousin Chris pertaining to their progress. Please continue to keep the family in your prayers.
Hello Friends and Family,
I know everyone has been praying for all of us.......and we really appreciate it.....thank you!
I also know, that everyone has been eager to hear how Ava and Leah are doing as well......
So I'm going to try my best to give you an overall update on how they are doing........
1st of all.....they are both doing really well!!! We've had a couple of good days in a row!!
And it couldn't of came at a better time..........for all of us!!
They're a month old already.......which we can't believe....time has flown by for us!!
Ava-she has been on breast milk for about 1-2 weeks now........and she's doing really well with it.
She's up to 14 ml every 3 hrs. (they feed her through a feeding tube through her nose), they also are adding calories to her meals......which is suppose to help her "beef up" haha
The doctors are hearing a murmur (heart-PDA) still.....
So they've put her on steroids for now....to try to help her lungs and buy her some time so if they decide to give her surgery in a week or so she will be stronger and hopefully not have as many problems as Leah did after her surgery last week (for the same thing).
The doctors have chosen this route because Leah had the surgery last Thurs. and she really had a hard time recovering from it.....so by waiting a week or so longer.....they're hoping that if it doesn't close up on its own, she will at least be a little bit bigger and will hopefully do better than her sister did!
Ava is about 2 pounds and 4 ounces now!!! And is definitely a daddy's' girl already!!!
Kevin seems to have "the touch" with her.......
He got to hold her yesterday (2nd time)and she actually smiled at him!!! It was pretty adorable.....
And he's about the only one she tolerates changing her diaper without having the alarms go off!
Which is what she does for me......every time!!! haha
Leah-is a little fighter .....I'll tell ya........It's amazing to see how much she's been through so far but, she keeps fighting through all of it.!!! She's one tough cookie........
She weighs just about 2 pounds now........and trust me.....you can't tell!!!
She had surgery last Thurs. on her heart (closing her PDA) and while she did well in surgery she had a pretty hard time recovering afterwards.......
Which we expected because of how small she is and that her heart wasn't used to working as hard.......
But, thank God she is on the mend now!!!
She has just started taking breast milk again since the surgery.......she is only on 1 ml every 3 hrs. for now.....until they decide that everything is in working order and then they will slowly increase her amount too..... Which so far she is doing okay with it.......
The best news about Little Leah is she is the 1st baby at Toledo Hospital to be on this new ventilator!!! And she is doing amazing on it!!!
We are really blessed .......Not only did they "choose" Leah to be on it but, she is really responding well with it!! The docs say this technology is "State of the Art".........
Toledo Hospital is only the 4th hospital in the country to have this technology......
And they just got it this week........and Leah has been on it for about 2-3 days already.......
There is only 1 though.......or they would of put Ava on it too......they said!
We really feel honored and blessed ......
Thanks for all your prayers........!! They are definitely working!!!
That's about it.........we still have many challenges ahead of us.......
But, we're heading in the right direction..!!! This was a good way to end our week!!!
Thanks for everything......Kevin and I really appreciate all your prayers and we know they will be home before we know it!!!
love, chris
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