Twins Update

Little Gracey
Gracey
Little Gabe
Gabe


These pics were taken today. The doctors keeps telling us that it looks worse than it is.
Gabe-Is fighting an infection of some kind which they believe is causing his respitory distress. He is on a ventilator to help him breathe easier while he heals. He also has an IV in the top of his head to give him the antibiotics. He has an NG tube in his nose to feed him and the rest of the wires are for monitoring. They put both him and Gracey on the lights for very low levels of jaundice. He has about five more days of antibiotics and hopefully he will show a huge improvement and be taken of the ventilators and start to nurse. They both have to be eating on their own and breathing on their own before coming home (hopefully we see no more than 2 weeks total in the NICU) but only time will tell.
Gracey-is doing much better than her brother. She was only on the ventilator for the first 12 hours and has been off ever since. She is on O2 and has a couple of days left of antibiotics. She just needs to keep he O2 levels up and start to eat and she would beat her brother home
Me-I tested positive to Strep Throat this afternoon and have to stay away from the NICU for at least 48 hours after starting the antibiotics. This is the worst timing and I am overwhelmingly heart broken about not seeing my babies everyday. Hopefully timing will be on our side and they will be able to try nursing when I am able to see them again. So Jared continues to go to the hospital for us both and my mom came tonight and was able to hold Gracey for the first time.
It has been an emotional few days and til our babies our home we will toss and turn at night, but we know that everything will be fine it's just a matter of when.
Thank you for everyone who has wished us well, included us in their prayers, came to visit, fed us, and helped with babysitting. We are very blessed. I will continue to keep everyone posted as best as I can.