Our little guy continues to grow and grow. Nolan officially reached the 5 pound mark yesterday. That is very encouraging. Not much has changed in the last few days. He is eating more milk from his bottles which is very exciting. He continues to get 40 mls of milk (just over 1 ounce) through a bottle and whatever he doesn't finish he gets though his feeding tube. Right now they are feeding him every three hours. He doesn't show much for signs of being hungry. I'm actually looking forward to that all-out scream telling us he's hungry! We haven't seen that yet...just a little munching on his hands but that's only been a few times. He is also still on a small amount of oxygen. The two things we have to work on before he comes home...finishing all of his bottles himself and getting off that oxygen assistance! Other than those two things, everything sure seems to be leaning our way. He's come so far and is so much more comfortable now than he was two weeks ago.
Nolan hasn't had much for awake periods since he's been born. Somedays he'll be awake for an hour and somedays for ten minutes. Yesterday he was so sleepy for me all day. He wouldn't wake up at all although he did still eat his bottles. When we called this morning to check to see how his night was they mentioned that he did have a long awake period in the night...from 3:30am - 7:30am. Go Nolan for staying awake for 4 hours...but we are a little backwards buddy...how about when you come home the awake period can be in the day during those hours and not in the middle of the night. :)
Have a great weekend. I knew this gloomy weather was being saved up for when I was out of the hospital...that month of beautiful weather couldn't have lasted forever!
Go Badgers!!
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