Day 74
Jack is doing wonderful! He know weighs over 5lbs at 5lbs 1.9 oz. Between yesterday and today he only gained .1 of an ounce, but that’s ok. He is burning a lot of calories just feeding from a bottle.
He still has not mastered that. We know that he is perfectly capable of doing so, however he has not consistently decided to. Sometimes he just falls asleep in the middle of his feeds, so we pour the rest of his milk in a syringe and he gets it through the tube. Every day he seems to get more from the bottle before giving up, and we know he soon will mostly always take the entire bottle and that means he can come home!
We still aren’t completely sure when Jack will be coming home. We are hoping for by the end of the month. We were given a rough estimate of the end of next week when he is 37 weeks adjusted, but at this point it seems that we will have to wait just a small time longer. Although this is somewhat disappointing, we want to be totally sure that Jack is really ready to come home. We’ve been told time and time again by the NICU that they will not send him home until they are very sure that he will do fine at home.
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