Thursday, August 28, 2008

update and prayers for baby cash

i wanted to post a little update on some friends of our's little one. as previously posted, baby cash was born to micah and jeremiah at 25 weeks 4 days gestation, weighing 1 lb. 3oz. micah, lyss and i went out for drinks and soup last week and she showed me one of his diapers. it was the same size as my cell phone. get out your cell phone and look at it, and imagine a baby diaper that is the size of your phone. its on our fridge now so we can remember to pray for baby cash when we see it! anyway, cash was recently put in isolation because one of the micro preemies in the NICU came down with necro something.. i don't know how to say it..only that its bad. anyway, cash was in isolation for a couple weeks and just came out of it and has tested negative for the necro stuff which is wonderful. however, the little guy keeps losing weight. he was up to 3lbs. 10oz. and is now down to 3lbs. 4oz. they have tried adding calories in, but he is burning more calories just eating from a bottle than he is taking in, if you can believe that! and then when he has a fussy fit, he burns even more calories. this week they are trying MCT oil, which is just vegetable fat basically. micah's words to me were "they are running out of options", so please pray that this little guy will start to gain some more weight, and that the MCT oil will help. and that he will be calm and have less fussy fits so he won't burn any calories. i'm going to go take some pics of him in the next couple weeks so i'll be sure to post a couple, i can only imagine that he is just the tiniest cutest little guy. micah and jeremiah thank you for your prayers. oh, and pray for their other little guy, jameson. he's only 4, and his little world has been rocked by this whole experience. they don't live here, so he's having to adjust very quickly to a whole new environment of hospital living! and one more thing, they have micah on a medicine to increase milk production and it makes her fidgety and tired all at the same time, no fun at all. pray that it will stop having that effect or that she won't need to be on it anymore. thanks for the prayers, i will keep updating.

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