Another full-bottle day

We went to see Jac today at noon. He was awake when we arrived, and it looked as if we could feed him with a bottle. I took Jac out of the isolette while Taj prepped the milk. By the time the bottle of milk was ready, however, Jac had gotten so drowsy that he didn't really drink at all. We ended up gavage feeding him while he napped on me. About 30 minutes into the feed, I started dozing off and ended up having a nice nap with him!

Jac and I stayed there until about 15 minutes after his gavage finished. He seemed very content and fully asleep, so we put him back in the isolette, and got ready to leave for lunch and run some errands. Before we left, however, he woke up and started fussing -- so we stayed. While fussing, he managed to pull his NG tube completely out of his nose.

By 2:30pm, Jac started looking hungry -- since it was only a little while before his next scheduled feed, we decided to try the bottle again. While Taj warmed up the bottle, I pulled Jac out and gave him a pacifier.

Just a minute before Taj came in with the bottle, he fell asleep in my arms, and it looked like he wasn't going to bottle feed. However, I teased his mouth with milk on the nipple and he eventually started sucking on the nipple. It took a few tries with burp-breaks and some waiting, but over a period of 40 minutes, Jac managed to empty the entire bottle. Yeah!

With all the fussing earlier, and then the work of drinking the entire bottle, Jac was pretty exhausted and fell into a nice sleep. Sleep is good. Sleep = growing!