Support us with our 24 week NICU baby

Hard to believe we’re in our third week now. Last week Kitt got the all clear on his heart scan for PDA, a common prem baby condition where a hole in the heart doesn’t close fully.

Yesterday, after a couple of days of steroids, we started a trial off the ventilator on NIPPV. The first 24 hours went well, and if it continues to go well, we’ll try him on CPAP.

He’s had to receive a few blood transfusions which is scary, but overall he’s doing ok and has increased from 800g to 920g.

We discovered that at birth, he was the same size and weight as a kororā (little blue penguin), so now Nat is hunting for cute penguin knitting patterns!

Thank you to everyone for your support so far, we appreciate it so much. We’d also love if you shared this with your networks <3