More milk!

When we went to DCH today, the nurse reported that he was able to successfully poop, and that his digestive tract appeared to be working fine. There had been some concerns during the last couple days that he essentially was constipated.

That his digestive tract is working is a good sign. He also has had a few more test milk feedings since yesterday. Taj did one this afternoon, giving Jac 1 ml through the OG line (a tube that goes in via Jac's mouth to the stomach). He has been on 1 ml every 6 hours.

During the Saturday evening rounds, the doctors ordered increasing his feeding to 1 ml every 3 hours. If he handles that well, they will start ramping up the amount of milk at each feeding and start counting the milk toward his nutritional intake. As his milk intake goes up, they'll correspondingly reduce the TPN nutrition coming in via the IV, with goal of getting him fully on milk so that he won't need any IV's.


Right after feeding, we put a little bit of milk on a cotton swab and let Jac taste the milk. When presented with the milk-soaked swab, he sucked on it. We hope he's learning the association between milk in his mouth and a happy tummy!