Feeding Increase

Madison's weight is now up to 1lb. 11.3oz. Her feedings went from 1 cc every four hours on Wednesday, to 1 cc every two hours, and now to 1 cc every hour.

More Pictures

I uploaded more pictures of Madison to a website. If you join the group you can view them. The site is http://madisonmarie.snapfish.com/snapfish and the password is hinch.

Holding Madison

Madison is continuing to gain weight. She is now up to 1lb. 9oz. The doctors measure how much food she has digested with each feeding. At every feeding, she digests a little bit more food than the time before.

Another huge milestone: The nurse took Madison out of the incubator and Kara and Jeremy got to hold her for the first time today.

Bowels are Working!

Madison pooped! She did a few small ones yesterday and today she had a larger one. This is great news. It means her bowel system is working, which is where the doctors thought she had an infection.

They also started her back on milk today. She got fed at 5:00pm and so far she is keeping it down.

Weight Gain

After Madison's weight got down to 1 lb. 4oz, we are happy to report that she has been gaining weight for the last two days, and is now up to 1 lb. 8oz, which is more than her birth weight!

Kara also let me know she now has both her eyes open.

To test if Madison had an infection, the doctors took a blood culture and let it sit out to see if any bacteria grew. So far none has and that is good news. The doctors are giving her a seven day treatment of antibiotics. During this time, they stopped feeding her milk and she is back to the IV feedings. When her antibiotics are done, they will start giving her milk again.

Contact Info

If anyone wanted to send a card or anything to Kara, she doesn't have an address right now. You can send whatever you would like to me, and I can take it down to Kara and Jeremy on the weekends when I go and visit. If you have any questions or would like my address, you can email me at stull_amanda@hotmail.com.


Things that would be helpful for them are gift cards, gas cards, and lots of prayers and support!

Anything that is sent to me for the family will be given to them as soon as possible

Possible Infection

On Sunday night, Madison got sick. She was throwing up and her color didn't look good. The doctors decided to treat her for an infection until they got her blood work back and knew for sure what was making her sick. She was given two antibiotics. I talked to Kara today (Wednesday) and she said Madison had not thrown up since Sunday and she had gotten her color back and the doctors said she was doing as well as she could be once again. They were still waiting for the test results though.

Welcome To The World

Kara and Jeremy welcomed their daughter
Madison Marie Hinchey on October 15, 2008 at 11:09 am. She was born at 24 weeks and six days. She weighed 1 lb. 7.9 oz. She was 30 centimeters long, so that is about 11 inches.

she was born, she was hooked up to oxygen to help her breathe. By the next night, she was needing the least amount of support possible for breathing.

After she was born, no one heard anything from the doctors for probably five hours. Finally that night, Jeremy was able to take up the family that had come down, and we all got to see her. Kara got to go up later that night. Since she had a C-section, the doctors didn't want her getting up too soon. At this point, everyone was so exhausted, and I think Kara and Jeremy were just relieved to know Madison was doing as well as she could be.

Madison is very active too. She is always moving her arms and legs, and likes to play with all the tubes and wires that are connected to her.

Saturday, the doctors started feeding her breast milk every

few hours. Kara has also been able to change her diapers

and take her temperature if she is visiting at changing time.