NICU - Day 15

Date: December 7th
Gestational Date: 30 weeks, 2 days

Half a month old

Sorry that I missed some days. I will try to go back and enter them soon.

I got a phone call at 2:57 this morning from the NICU saying that they suspected necrotizing enterocolitis. They said they were contacting the peds surgeons to evaluate her. By the time I arrived around 3:20, they were getting ready for her to move to Bay 1 and had already put her on a ventilator. She is now receiving 4 different antibiotics. They put a tube in to drain the gases and it also drained stool, meaning she has a perforated bowel. She will likely need surgery in the next few hours. 

This is not at all what we expected after several good days in a row. Last night when we left the hospital, we were talking about her moving to an isolette (a step down in her level of care) and now we're talking about a colostomy bag and surgery. Please pray.


As a result of Madelyn's infection, she lost several centimeters of small intestine. She looked SO much better after her two surgeries.

Relaxing post surgery

Got milk?