Friends, Family, Prayer Warriors:
Sheri brought Jordan home last night, so officially, we have all the Cordovas under one roof! Jordan had two bradycardia episodes yesterday morning, but they were written off to her acid reflux.
Currently, Jordan has:
* a feeding tube (called a "G" Tube) in her stomach to give us a way to feed her until she can get her stridor, acid reflux, partial vocal cord paralysis and air flap resolved. Most of these will be overcome by maturity as she gains more weight and gets older, but for now they are conjoining together and causing Jordan not to be able to swallow without aspirating
* a monitor to let us know when she has bradycardia episodes (lowering of her heart rate below the tolerable threshold for her [80 Beats Per Minute]). Right now, these are caused by when Jordan is constipated and bears down to push, or if the mild acid reflux she has gets bad enough to well up in her throat, causing her to aspirate
* blood pressure medicine, captopril - Jordan takes this every 8 hours to assist with keeping the stenosis (tightening/closing) on her left ventricle aortic valve to a minimum
* acid reflux medicine, prevacid - Jordan takes this once a day, usually with her midnight feed, to help with keeping her mild acid reflux to a bare minimum until she can grow out of it, or gets much older and needs a different medication to control it (we are hoping and praying for the first)
Sheri and Jordan arrived back at the homestead about 7:30 pm last night.
The homecoming was a simple one (Sheri, Jordan, Jacob, me, Rae) and we set about getting her Sheri's car unloaded from the last remnants of the NICU, and settled in to her new surroundings. She first was held by her grandma Mia (Rae), then Daddy, then into Mommy's arms to ready her 8 pm feed while Mia observed how to set up the tubes. Very shortly after all that was setup, Jordan got to lay in her bed for the first time with Bubba Jacob observing in the crib next to her until his bottle warmed up (we are going to make every effort to keep them on the same feeding schedule, every 4 hours [12, 8, 4, 12]).
Thankfully, during the night, Jordan's monitor never sounded, which is a very good sign. We hope and pray that it will continue on and she can be off of it real soon (which will be determined by her pediatrician, and her first visit with the doctor is tomorrow). We learned when we did Care by Parent (which is required for at least one of the parents if the baby is being released from the NICU with any kind of monitoring system or special apparatus) just before Jordan was released, that she is a good sleeper (at least for now, I'm sure that will change).
Hopefully some of that will rub off on Jacob, which I think has started (or maybe its just wishful thinking). Usually I can set my alarm clock by him waking up for his 4 am feed about 3:20 am fussing and ready, or just coming around. This particular morning, he was still asleep. Go figure.
Now the real fun begins! At any rate, Sheri got her Mother's Day Wish (she wanted both of her kids home, sitting around the house in her pajamas for Mother's Day), and with Jordan being home, now she has it.
As for Jacob, Rae and I did a quick comparison between the two last night...Officially we both agree the babies are looking like they are related as they fill out and get bigger. Jacob's appetite definitely has increased; where it used to be average that he would take two to three ounces per feed, now it seems more like three. He still has some moments where he only will take two, or sometimes one and a half depending on how fussy he is, but it is a very good progressional sign for him!
Please pray for continued success for all!
Thank you for all of your love, prayers and thoughts! More progress reports as soon as I can spare another minute! May the good Lord bless and protect us all.
Kind regards,
The Cordova Family (Andy, Sheri, Jacob & Jordan)
cell - 281-300-6212
email - maverick2601@hotmail.com
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