Today was a really great day! He has had his nasal cannula off since last night and is tolerating it well. Yesterday we tried to nurse with help from the lactation consultant, he was so sleepy and didn't do much but daddy got to hold him for the first time yesterday! Today was a completley different story! I went in for his 11am feeding and he was so awake and alert, he nursed like a champ! I was so proud of him, he still got his breastmilk through the feeding tube when we were done just to make sure he is getting all of his calories. In the next day or so they are going to start bottle feeding him when I am not there to get him eating without the tube. That is pretty much the next step for him to come home!!! The nurse that had him today said that she thinks we could be looking at the end of next week. That is so incredibly exciting, if he was home for Christmas that would be the best Christmas present I could ever ask for!
He is still on the caffeine but hasn't had any alarms, if he needs to go home on the caffeine he will also go home on a monitor (which I wouldn't mind :-) ) that monitors his heartrate, breathing, and pulse ox. Please pray that he will catch onto feeding soon so that he can come home!
It's still wierd being home. I went into the hospital at 24weeks, I was just starting to get a cute belly and now I am home and don't have a baby here. I am so happy and know we are so blessed that he is doing so well and will be home soon so I just try to remember that instead of being down about him not being home at this very moment.
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