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.

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Henry Developments

Today, Thursday, started off with a scare. For a short time, we thought Henry's bilirubin number was up to 8 but it turned out that 8 was the total rather than the conjugated number. In reality, his 3.8 had become 4.3. Not good news but not a crisis. Nevertheless, a plan is in place and Henry is having surgery on Tuesday. The successful dye test and the uncertainty about his liver seems to have changed people's minds and we are going a little earlier than we were told before. I like this change. 

Charlie is doing well. He is on a lot of pain medication but all of his vital signs are good. 

Henry's tolerance of CPAP has ran out. He has worked out several techniques to get it off. Here is the lean back push up method. 


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  1. UnknownMarch 14, 2014 at 8:34 AM

    Henry boy glad you are not in crisis, but sending you so much love and light and hoping that surgery goes well on Tuesday. I really applaud the lean back push up method. It looks quite effective. Love to you all.

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  2. Stef LangMarch 14, 2014 at 10:59 AM

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  3. Stef LangMarch 14, 2014 at 11:02 AM

    "Lean back and push up method" makes me think of a pilates move or two. Perhaps he earned that in the womb during sessions at "Pilates with Aly"..... a good student from the get-go. :)

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