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Monday, October 11, 2010

Benjamin had a great day. He's such a happy boy. He had 2 bottles again. He did fairly well. He had an episode at the beginning of both bottles today...but that's ok. He's getting it. It takes time. He snuggled with me this morning and then spent the afternoon awake..watching all that was going on in the room. He really looks around at people walking by or the lights on the monitors. Its funny watching him. Sometimes he's so intense and serious. He rarely complains. The doctors increased his feeds today, he is at 24mls as of 9:00pm tonight and tomorrow morning he will be up to 25mls...as long as he has no issues through the night he will be on full feeds tomorrow. Praise God!!! After we know he tolerates the increase tomorrow we will start trying to give him his feeds over a shorter amount of time. So they will give him his 3 hour amount over 2.5 hours and once he tolerates that they will give him the 3 hour amount over 2 hours. They will do that slowly until he's taking his 3 hour amount in 20minutes...or so, like a normal baby. The biggest issue will be making sure he doesn't start "dumping". As he starts getting larger amounts in shorter times he could get diarrhea and start losing weight. If that happens we'll have to back off and slow down. We just have to take it one day at time. He's doing great and finally getting the best nutrition he can get..I'm so thankful.

1 comment:

Tanya said...

What a great update :) I bet you are getting so excited to have all your kids under one roof :)

Tanya

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