Heavy Weights!

Deck of cards = size of preemie diaper!

The exciting news from today is Wilson now weighs a whopping 2 pounds and Clara is at 1 pound 11 ounces! Both are up from their birth weight! They have increased their feedings to 4 ccs of breast milk every 3 hours. If Wilson does well with this, they are going to up his to 5ccs! The doctors said feedings can be (usually are) up and down, they have to figure out just how much their little stomachs can tolerate without making them sick. While Dad had to go back to work today, Chris and Grandma got to Clara's and Wilson's diapers. They are so tiny!

A question we've asked over and over is what caused Chris's water to break? While doctors say nobody really knows what causes pre-term labor, they are fairly confident there was a low grade infection in Clara's amniotic sac. Our doctor believes this happens at the time of conception and when there is an infection it causes the sac to break. Chris was on antibiotics for a week after her water broke and her contractions resumed the day after the antibiotics ended. The doctors said an infection was the main thing that could cause Chris to go into labor. This theory continues to prove true as Clara was born with a very high white blood cell count (a sign of infection) and immediately placed on antibiotics. However, this is an infection that keeps on giving. Chris's incision from her c-section is infected which is typical in women whose water broke and did not go immediately into labor. The doctor drained her incision today and showed Judy how to care for it until her next appointment on July 6. Hopefully the combination of antibiotics and the drainage will allow her incision to heal quickly.