With daddy's assistance, Jac took in 4ml of fortified milk this afternoon. As you can see in the pictures, he was nicely awake during the experience. The Dr. Brown's bottle worked pretty well. Jac seemed comfortable with the milk flow today. After a few minutes, the nurse suggested that we stop so that we don't overwhelm Jac. He seemed pretty comfortable -- and it seemed to me that he could have taken in much more!
After the milk, he sucked on the pacifier for another five minutes or so, before falling asleep in daddy's arms. He was given the rest of his milk via gavage (tube) feeding for the next hour. He was mostly fine, but he did have two quick brady's - most likely because of reflux.
After the feeding, I put Jac back in the isolette. He squirmed a little while we were tucking him in, but he quickly settled down and went into a nice sleep.
Taj and I went out for a little dinner and a movie to give ourselves a little bit of relaxation. (We saw Hairspray. It was a fun movie - I'll never look at John Travolta the same way again!) After the movie, we dropped in at the hospital before going home for the night. He had a nice evening, and even mostly slept through his cares at 9pm. When I pulled up his monitor logs, it showed that he had nearly four hours of calm -- his heart rate was nice and steady in the high 150's, low 160's.
He weighed in tonight at 1,074 grams, gaining 28 grams from yesterday.
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