Our Happy Family

Here is a picture of our new Big Happy Family!!

Here comes the Parade

                                                                       Brynn

                                                                         Brynn

                                                                           Adrie

                                                                        Mia

                                                                     girls and their nurses

                                                               Elevator down to car

                                                                  Girls in car seats

                                                                 Lobby

                                                               waiting for dad and the van

                                                            all loaded up

                                                                       Guard dog

Guard dog resting with Mia and Grandma G

If you haven't heard we now have three new renters in the Gyurasics' household. Ok well they haven't paid their rent yet but I have a feeling we will be forking out a  lot of money for them in the next 30 yrs :)..We were discharged from the NICU last night.  It was so sad to leave all of the nurses we had made such great friends with.  We waited for Nurse Amanda to come in for shift change so we could say good bye since she was our night nurse most every night she worked (I think every night she worked). When we left all the staff clapped and said good bye both Mommy and Daddy got a little choked up at that. We both felt like we were leaving our family..we did spend the last seven weeks with them.  We are going to miss all the nurses, NNPs, Drs, and staff that we made friends with and got to know the girls really well.  Here are some pictures of our last day and us leaving the hospital. We are very happy to be home!!! Big sister Addie is doing great.  She is guarding their area like it is her job.  We even had all four of them crying last night.  Addie whines if the girls cry, she doesn't like that she can't fix it.  She is a good big sis.

The "H" word

                                                                 Mia

                                                                           Mia

                                                                      Mia

                                                                        Brynn

Adrie

The "H" word has been throw around a few times with Miss Mia (HOME).  They are thinking she will probably been able to go home sometime this week.  She has her feeding tube out and she is in an open crib with a HUGS tag on so she doesn't crawl away (right Uncle Jeff- inside joke). Brynn and Adrie are still in their incubators but are not far behind Mia.  All are taking bottles Mia all feeding, and the other two most of their feedings. We don't like to talk about the "H" word because every time we do there is a set back.  So Adrie the other day had to be tipped three times for a Barium Enema.  She had to have it to r/o Hirshsprungs Disease (which as most of you know the Gyurasics' Family did not want her to have as we have dealt with this in the past with Baby Remi).  Mommy was in a panic when she heard that word as a diagnosis.  They had to do the BE twice and the first time the tip came out, so she was tipped a total of three times.  For those of you who have never had or heard of a BE, it is a Xray exam where Barium is injected into the colon thru a cath in the rectum.. the doctor watches the barium go up through the colon. Now I am sure all of you are squeezing your butt checks together in pain, now image you are a 6 week old preemie and have to do it three times!!!! OUCH!!!!! Mommy was like just get it over.  Thankfully the techs were nice and let me stay in the room while they were doing the exam and Adrie handled it like a champ.  Thankfully the test was normal after three tips, several xrays, and two attempts at a BE.  Mommy and Adrie both needed a nap.We were in xray for 4 hours and Mommy didn't even get paid.  Mia has had minimal blood in her bowel movements which means her fissure is healing YEAH!! Brynn is just hanging out letting her sisters get all the attention from the doctors.  She doesn't want any part of what her sisters have had to go through. Mia had her hearing tested and she can hear.  Every time she heard the tone she raised her hand!! LOL. She is so smart. :)

Mia's Big Day

                                                                         Adrie

                                                                           Brynn

                                                                            Brynn

Adrie

Well Mia has not had such a great weekend. She started having blood in her bowel movements. She has a fissure which needs to heal and a possible allergy to lactose (milk) so she was on IV feedings for a day and half to not have bowel movements to let the fissure heal and mom can't eat any dairy.  She was given a blood transfusion Monday since her hematocrit dropped due to the bleeding from her fissure.  One good thing we found out what blood type she is and she is the same as her momma!! She was very pale before the transfusion and now she is pink as all get out! She is back to herself now and nursed today like she hadn't eaten in weeks. :) She was very mad during her IV feedings that she wasn't been feed milk.  The other two girls are starting to get the whole nursing thing.  Adrie has to have abdominal xrays due to a swollen belly but it turns out she just had gas in her belly.  She needs a follow up tomorrow because the radiologist is catious and wants to be sure.  Brynn is not doing anything new she just is happy in her little incubator.  All girls are gaining weight and getting bigger.

Big Girls

Well the girls have decided they are going to be big girls now.  They all have started nursing and Mia has taken a bottle (Lactation Consultant not very happy about the bottle but oh well, good thing they are MY babies hahaha).  Girls are doing good, Mia is having some issues with blood in her stool but the doctors are all watching her and they think she might be allergic to fortifiers then add to the breast milk.  They have stopped the fortifiers and it has decreased a little so we will have to wait and see if that is the problem.  She also has a fissure which can cause blood too.  They are all problems that can be fixed easy so we are not worried at all but they are just going to keep an eye on it to make sure nothing else comes about with it. Girls are all gaining weight, Mia is almost 4# now (3# 12 1/2 oz), brynn is 3#4 1/2 oz, and Adrie is 3# 7oz. Here are some pics of Mia taking her first bottle...for obvious reasons we do not have pictures of them nursing so Mia is the only one with pics this post.  :)

Love our Nurses

We just love our nurses at the NICU. They are so funny. They love to joke around with us, which makes it a lot easier to come here everyday!! Here are some of the funny things they have done.

As you all know Joe hates Ohio State...so when they lost this weekend naturally Joe was happy. So before he arrived on Sunday Nurse Karen and Donna made these little hats for the girls!!!

 The Ronald McDonald house gave us these dolls.  Nurse Donna has been worried about these dolls, they were behind the blinds and she made Joe put them infront of the blinds because she thought they were too hot.  We joke that she will bottle feed the dolls before she feeds the girls. When I came back from pumping this is what I saw...

We joke that she is going to hook them up to the monitors. I think I might make three little monitors with leads tonight.  They are just dolls :)

And on each of the girls boards the nurses write a special thing about each girl, well Joe has written his own messages on each board.  Mia's said I love it when OSU loses. Brynn's says I like to poo in the tubby., and Adrie's says Susie gave me a blood blister.  Well this morning Nurse Donna changed Mia's to read...

She wanted to change all of them but decided not too, but was going to put on Brynn's I like to poo on my daddy (funny thing is she did the night before hahha).

The nurses make us laugh everyday with their jokes.  We couldn't ask for any better care for our girls.

Oh also sometimes the board says Please check our outfits Joe sometimes wears them home.. Right DAD HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA......that is what my dad thought it said on the board which really reads Please check our outfits we sometimes wear ours from home... hahahhaha

8 years ago

8 years ago Joe and I were married.  Never in our wildest dreams did we think we would be spending our 8th anniversary in NICU with our three daughter....but we wouldn't have it any other way!! So Happy Anniversay to us.  Brynn got us a present she is over 3# so I now have three 3# babies :)  YEAH!!!! Mia weighs 3# 9 1/2 oz, Brynn weighs 3# 1/4 oz, and Adrie weighs 3# 3 oz.  Way to go girls.  Also the girls were one month old yesterday!! I can't believe it. They had their head ultrasound yesterday and all were normal. The was a big relief for mommy. Girls are now being fed over an hour so they are starting to get close to maybe trying a bottle or nursing.  Mia is really ready, Brynn is kinda interested, and Adrie wants nothing to do with it.  She is on her own schedule and doesn't want to budge...oh great just wait right!! Well here are some pics of them 1 Month old!! Enjoy!

                                                                                  Brynn

                                                                        Adrie

                                                                                Mia