On the positive side - at noon he drank 16 ml from the bottle with me. He had good pacing and things went quite well. He leaked a little bit out the sides of his mouth but all in all he did very well.
We shall hope for more of the same with the feeding tomorrow. We are trying for 2 feedings a day but we haven't been to do that yet! Hopefully soon!
He is getting very strong - and insistent. He was up for 5 hours - at least most of the time - from 4 pm - 9 pm! I held him for a good portion of that - we have found a pretty good position that he and I both like - in spite of the chair.
He pulled his NG tube all the way out today - his nurse suggested we put mittens on him if he keeps on doing it - but I don't want to - he deserves to have his hands and to pull out the tubes - they are taped to his face! We shall see.
We put his first clothes on him today. I purchased micro preemie clothes - XS to 3 pounds! He looked very cute and he has been sleeping in them since 9 pm and he seems to be doing well so far. His isolette is now down to 28.0 degrees - we may be getting close to taking him out - the clothes should help that process along.
The only problem with taking him out of the isolette and into an open crib as I see it - is that he will get lot more noise. In the isolette he is relatively protected when the doors of the isolette are closed - sometimes it gets very noisy in the hall or the nurses speak very loudly when they are in his room or in the hall outside his room. The loudest thing that seems to happen is when they run the water in the room. It does not make a lot of sense to me to design such a quiet place - and then make a mistake like placing a very noisy sink in the baby's room. Really!
Jac looks so cute in his little outfit. Great idea!
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