Saturday, May 2, 2009





Amy just got back from the hospital about 20 minutes ago and here are some pics. The nurse did something unprecedented. She took his breathing stuff off for a few minutes in order to weigh him without it on. It made for good pictures. Without the stuff on he breathed fine! When Amy got there tonight she spoke to him and he immediately moved his head in her direction! The nurse said "Oh, you recognize your mommy's voice!" The nurses work 12-hour shifts and each has another baby they're assigned to. However, we've only seen repeat nurses a couple of times. Tonight's nurse let his incubator be open more than normal, so Amy had a lot of contact with him. When we hold him we do it bare-chested, so the baby's naked skin is on ours. They call it "kangaroo care". They were going to start increasing the amount of Amy's milk they give him. They give him 1 cc every 4 hours. 1 cc is 1/5th of a teaspoon. They've not been able to increase the amount however, because he hasn't been digesting it well. They give it to him from a syringe that goes into his feeding tube. They just squeeze it right in. Then they keep the syringe closed, so the food can't come back. Later they open up the syringe so it can come back up if it needs to. Hours later they suck it out to see what he has digested. He hasn't digested much, so they haven't increased the amount. That he is having trouble digesting is not a surprise though. Amy says the nurses said tonight that a 28-week baby does not have a developed digestive system. He gained a little weigth (10 grams, I think), but not enough to push him above 1 pound, 14 ounces.

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