Get Bigger Fast, Hunter

Hunter needs to grow. Doctor says so. Hunter is already filling his belly and receiving the maximum amount of calories his belly can handle. With all of this he is still not gaining weight as consistently as Doctor thinks he should.

The next thing they're going to try is the same thing they are already doing, isn't that convenient. The new plan is to keep Hunter from burning calories. In order to do this they are going to leave him in the incubator so he won't have to keep his temperature on his own. They are also going to leave him on CPAP for a while so he can save calories that way, too.

Today when we arrived to visit Hunter, Nurse was feeding him through his feeding tube. While she was feeding him he was sucking on his pacifier. I think she was trying to help him make the connection between sucking and being fed. It is developmentally time for him to start eating from a bottle, but they won't be able to do it until he is off of CPAP.