Jac gained 36 grams today! Wow! Two big days in a row! He is really getting to be a big boy!
I tried to feed him today with limited success but the nurse was able to feed him 17 ml tonight!
I am very sad to have the nurses feeding him - I really want Joseph or I to do it - but feeding is really our only roadblock to going home at this point - so the more often he eats (with anyone) the better.
The nurse said he was wide awake and looked like he wanted to eat. I had been with him at the previous feeding and he was having none of it!
He also started another round of epotein today - to increase his hematocrit which has dropped again. This is normal - all newborns have their hematocrit drop after they are born until their bodies produce enough epo on their own to trigger their bone marrow to make more red blood cells. This round of epo will last for a week of daily shots again - and this should get his body making enough red blood cells to tide him over until his own hormone creation kicks in.
Because he is getting more epo he is also getting more iron which can be very constipating - and may be the reason he was very fussy with me today.
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