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Hi everyone! Just wanted to intro myself and DS. DS was born June 17 at 33 weeks and 5 days (due date 7/31). He was 5 lbs 6 oz at birth - I had GD, which I think explains why he was as big as he was. He stayed in the Special Care Nursery until discharged July 3 - what an Independence Day we celebrated!!! :-) I was lucky enough to be able to stay in a room in the hospital free of charge to be close to him. He came home on an Apnea monitor (had some Brady issues in the hospital) and is still on it, but even though it has gone off, we haven't had any big scares and it's more limited use now. He also takes med for reflux and right now we're battling a case of thrush. I'm happy to report he weighed in at 9lbs 9.5 oz at yesterday's checkup. I was worried he wouldn't gain enough as he's started sleeping for longer stretches, but the ped said he's doing great and to let him keep sleeping - thank God b/c I'll take whatever sleep I can get!
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Our precious girl, born at 27 weeks.
His last "significant" episode was Aug 2. He didn't need CPR or anything, but he needed a pat on the back. Since then, he's had some alarms, but has always been pink and not needed anything. We go back Oct 12 to have the machine read again and if there haven't been any more significant episodes, he will be off! Keeping my fingers crossed for that....although, it is good piece of mind for me having the monitor.