It’s been a rough two weeks. Not for Emma and Dylan they have been growing and developing really well.
Stats:
Dylan: 7.1 kg; Emma: 6.1 kg
Emma is now getting too long for her cot. We need to bring down the second cot into the baby room. It’s going to be tight but it will work.
The illnesses started off two weeks ago with me developing a serious throat infection. It was extremely sore every breath I took. It has taken me until this last weekend to really recover.
Anina had a mild flu when I had my throat infection. However, she got really sick last Sunday. She eventually landed up in the 24 hour Emergency rooms at Sandton Clinic where they tried very hard to get her blood pressure up as it was dangerously low. Eventually she was admitted and was placed under careful surveillance. By early on Monday morning (5am) her condition had deteriorated and her heart rate had become irregular. The doctor took drastic action and injected her with adrenaline to get her heart going properly again. She landed up ICU for two days as a result. Only after the second day did they actually identify what was wrong with her. It’s called Clostridium difficile. She got this from the antibiotics that were prescribed for the flu. It’s when the wrong pro-biotics get killed off by the antibiotic and others run riot, and riot they did. While Anina got out of ICU by Wednesday morning the illness was still far from over. She started to finally improve on the weekend after many set backs and much frustration. Today, Monday, she was discharged, still feeling rather lousy, but absolutely overjoyed to see Emma and Dylan. She missed a whole week of their development which was very hard. Here’s to a full speedy recovery.
These pictures were especially taken for Anina so that she could see how they babies were growing while she was in hospital:
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