Tyrell's Latest Project

So we have been wanting to do something with the ugly kitchen for a long time, and it's finally done. Tyrell came up with this cool design idea to paint on the cabinets and we went to work matching the tile he put in to paint colors. He has done so much in the kitchen all by himself. It started with the tile floor and now he has painted and changed all the hardware on the cabinets. It looks so much better! The top two pictures are the before.

Havyn Update

Little miss Havyn decided she didn't need oxygen anymore this morning, and ripped it off. The nurse told us when we got there, and said that she had decided to see what she did without out. She has now held her oxygen level at a good level on her own for the entire day! We are so excited! They have said she might have to go back on it eventually if she starts to have problems. She has took a tiny bit of her food from a bottle a couple of times today. We still have a long road ahead of us before she can come home, but she is making awesome progress. They upped her feeding to about 24 cc's tonight, and for her weight when she was born they said she needed to be eating about 60 out of a bottle each feeding in order to come home. To maintain her weight now she will probably need a little more. She now weighs 5 pounds 15 ounces.

Good Havyn News and LOTS of Pictures

Havyn is much better! She is now just on regular oxygen. They have taken all the IVs out of her belly button, and she just has one in to give her antibiotics, and fluid if needed. She is also eating through a feeding tube that goes in through her nose, down her throat, and into her stomach. This way they can check to see how much food she has digested. She was able to get her chest tube taken out this morning as well. This made is so now we can hold her. That part is so great! The two things they are concerned with at this point are whether or not they will need to put in a pick line and jaundice. They said if her jaundice level goes up any more they will need to put her under lights. The pick line they may need to do if they are going to need to do much with her IV much longer, since regular IVs don't last long, and they have to move them from place to place often. She has had hers in her feet, and now it's in her head. We still don't know when she will be able to come home, but she is improving nicely.

I put this up for the great grandparents more than anything. She isn't doing anything, but laying there obviously, but I thought it might be more or a real experience if there was a video. I also took this video for poor Koen, who is so confused about why he can't see Havyn, but she's out of my mommy's tummy. He broke down, and cried when my mom and I left to see Havyn today because he wanted to go so badly. They said that once they can get some of the tubes, and equipment off of her we will be able to take her to the window to let the boys see her. As of now we can't even hold her. She is still about the same other than her right lung is not filling up with air like it should. The left lung was the problem before and still has the tube in it because of the problem with the right lung. They had to put her back on c pap, which is the thing that is on her nose, instead of a regular oxygen mask to try to resolve the problem in the right lung. As for what they do for it, we aren't really sure, other than the Dr. said that a lot of times these resolve on their own, it just takes time. They took a second x ray after putting her back on the c pap, and the lung looked a little bit better, so we hope this does the trick. Once they get the respiratory stuff under control they will start really slowly trying to feed feed her through a tube that goes down through her nose to her stomach. For now, they are giving her what she needs from an IV. I never knew they could give fats and things this way, but thank heavens they can.

Havyn Update

Havyn had a pretty rough night and morning. At about 4 am today she had some major breathing issues so the doctors took an X-ray and saw she had a bunch of air outside her lung on the left side that had pushed her left lung closed and had pushed her heart all the way onto the right side of her body. They put a breathing tube in her mouth and then they used a small syringe in her chest to remove the air.( The white patch in the photo is where the syringe was.) They kept getting more and more air so the decided to put in a chest tube with some suction to keep the air out. She also has some lines going in her cord/bellybutton that they use to monitor her blood pressure, her gas-blood level, and to give her lipids and such. You can also see a gray box thing that is giving her two different antibiotics as a precaution because of all the procedures she has had this morning.

Havyn Marie Teeter

Havyn is here and doing well. Mom is doing great and getting some rest. Havyn was born at 12:56 and weighed 5lbs and 7 ozs. She is in the NICU right now because she is having a hard time breathing. Her respiration's should be under 60 and her's were about 120 when she went in. She is doing much better now with the oxygen and tubes so we are hopeful she will get to leave the NICU sometime soon.