Introduction

Our sons Charles George Fitzpatrick and Henry Michael Fitzpatrick were born prematurely on November 16, 2013 at a gestational age of 24 weeks and 1 day. Their "due date" was March 7th, 2014. We started this site on November 28th.

Both Aly and David will be posting to the site. While you will probably be able to tell who is writing by our writing styles, we will sign off on our entries with our initials so you will be sure of the author.

Friday, February 28, 2014

Short Update, for the Record

There were a few reasons that Aly and I decided to do a blog about the time that Charlie and Henry were in the hospital. One was so that we had a record or "journal". It is with that in mind that I write tonight. 

Charlie did move to CPAP on Thursday and it is so far so good, in terms of his ability to breathe. Charlie, however, hates CPAP. We are hoping that he gets used to it... stat, as they say at the hospital. CPAP works better if he keeps his mouth closed. The pacifier, therefore, is a great tool. Calms him and stops air escaping. Sorry for the dark photo but I thought you might enjoy seeing his turtle help out keeping it in today. 


Henry update would look the same as most of the week. Breathing and growing. However, today, as we rather expected, he went back on CPAP now that his nose is ok again. 

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3 comments:

  1. UnknownMarch 1, 2014 at 5:45 PM

    Boy do I wish that I was that turtle snugging up to wee man C. Maybe one day I will get to snuggle with him. Sending love to all of you. Thank you always for these updates. xoxo

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  2. ReginaMarch 1, 2014 at 10:27 PM

    Glad to see the turtle doing his job to help out. Kind of a guardian, no? Thank you for the update. Onward and upward to the #fightingfitzies!!!

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