Day 23 - More comments on "the chin" Visit from Grandma and Grandpa Witte, From 2L to 1.5L oxygen, still 4lbs 6oz, starting swallow therapy in the morning with the therapist.
Day 24 - Mommy and Danielle visit. Mommy got to give 1st bottle and he ate 32 of 40! No spit ups, no problems. Danielle got to hold him too!
The kids got a picnic lunch in the waiting area.
Nathan worked with Lea the PT this time.
Mason taking his FIRST bottle!
Day 25 - 4lbs 8oz, Takes bottles every other feeding. No problems except they have to up his oxygen because he forgets to breathe after swallowing. He really wants to go home almost as much as I want him here :)
Day 26 - 4lbs 11oz, on low flow at 35cc which is the lowest before it can come off. Ate a full 41cc by bottle (every other feed) cueing for a bottle well.
Day 27 - Mommy and Tara come to visit. Mason was weighed again and is
4lbs 14oz!!!!!!
Mason was awake and so smiley and making all kinds of smacking noises like he was ready to eat and Mommy tried a feed and Mason had 2 red lights during the feed - meaning he was too into sleeping to feed.
He then was having issues when the nurse, and Tara and I were trying to leave so he had A/Bs in protest.
This was totally normal. Nothing to worry about.
Now that is a smile!
Mason loves to pull his cords out!
"Mason looks big so it is hard to remember that he is still very young." - Al the Nurse
This is true. It is so hard to see him "look" normal and seem to be normal in so many ways that it is hard remembering he is a preemie. Until you see his teeny tiny parts.
He is too tall for some of his preemie clothes, his arms hang out of most his clothes. He is in the "bigger" preemie diapers. It is so strange. I am learning a lot about Preemies and getting anxious for our boy to come home. It hasn't been to hard on me but I have my moments.
Day 25 - 4lbs 8oz, Takes bottles every other feeding. No problems except they have to up his oxygen because he forgets to breathe after swallowing. He really wants to go home almost as much as I want him here :)
Day 26 - 4lbs 11oz, on low flow at 35cc which is the lowest before it can come off. Ate a full 41cc by bottle (every other feed) cueing for a bottle well.
Day 27 - Mommy and Tara come to visit. Mason was weighed again and is
4lbs 14oz!!!!!!
Mason was awake and so smiley and making all kinds of smacking noises like he was ready to eat and Mommy tried a feed and Mason had 2 red lights during the feed - meaning he was too into sleeping to feed.
He then was having issues when the nurse, and Tara and I were trying to leave so he had A/Bs in protest.
This was totally normal. Nothing to worry about.
"Mason looks big so it is hard to remember that he is still very young." - Al the Nurse
This is true. It is so hard to see him "look" normal and seem to be normal in so many ways that it is hard remembering he is a preemie. Until you see his teeny tiny parts.
He is too tall for some of his preemie clothes, his arms hang out of most his clothes. He is in the "bigger" preemie diapers. It is so strange. I am learning a lot about Preemies and getting anxious for our boy to come home. It hasn't been to hard on me but I have my moments.
