Avi and Deacon have made it to three weeks today. The neonatologists are telling us that they won't be going before my due date (October 21). So, we still have another 12+ weeks at the hospital.
Deacon had his echo cardiogram done this morning, and like his sister, his PDA has not closed completely either. Fortunately, it has gotten smaller (he's still on the CPAP). He continued to multiple apnea events throughout the day, so they started him on a second round of medication. They will give him up to 3 rounds of medication before they would do surgery to clamp the valve.
You can tell they're definitely twins! Not only did they both need medication for treatment of the PDA, but their oxygen levels are pretty similar. If one drops, the other does too (usually to the same number). The nurses chuckle because once they walk over to one of the alarms, the other starts to alarm! Avigail and Deacon are definitely making the nurses work for their paycheck!
