Jac has started to eat by mouth

Jac has started to eat by mouth! Just a tiny bit. Yesterday was his first time and he ate 3 ml and today he ate 2 ml.

He is pretty good at sucking - now he has to really sort out the "Suck, Swallow, Breathe" thing and then we will be golden.

The video above was made by Joseph and is of his first time ever eating by mouth! He was so cute I could hardly stand it.

He is currently getting 20 ml over an hour once every 3 hours - so he gets 160 ml per day. Whatever he doesn't eat by mouth we give to him in his gavage tube (which goes through his nose and straight into his stomach).

My breast milk is being fortified from the 20 kcal / ounce (estimate) that it is when I make it to 26 kcal / ounce. They are also adding Zinc to the milk and giving him Zantac for his reflux.