Eat Faster, Hunter

Hunter sure is getting big. Just recently he passed six and a half pounds, a whole four pounds since he was born.

His feedings are still the same size, 45 ml (one and a half ounces) every three hours. There is a good change they made today though. To help with his reflux they've been giving him his meals over two hours, but with only a one hour break between feeding times he wasn't getting a lot of time to digest his food. Today they decreased his time down to one hour. We'll see if he is still able to eat as much food in half of the time without having reflux problems.

I seem to be getting different stories from different nurses regarding when they are going to try a bottle again. His nurse last night said "3 days," his nurse today said "I don't know, he's doing pretty good though," and his night nurse said "Doctor didn't write any plans for that."

Hmmm.... someone's not communicating the news that I want to hear to all of the nurses.

His hair looks darker in the picture than it really is. I notice in the picture it seems to have some red, too. Maybe he got that from Mommy. I'm trying to guess what color his eyes will be. Right now they are gray, but the color should start coming through in the next few months.

Besides all of that, we're just waiting. They haven't been able to wean him off the oxygen at all, but both of his nurses today did say that he is being very happy laying on his belly (he has always preferred that.) Of course we aren't allowed to do that once he gets home, but at the hospital it's okay since he is covered with monitors. They're very cautious about SIDS, they actually had to get a doctor's order to allow him to sleep on his belly since he could breathe easier that way.