Day 67: What a week!!

In the past week Henry has literally turned the corner! He is off CPAP and he drank his first bottle!!! AND last night he weighed 4 pounds 15 ounces...he might be 5lbs for Thanksgiving!!!

He is loving being off CPAP and having those tubes..or "scuba gear" as my dad calls it, no longer shoved up his nose..so much happier. He has small prongs up his nose now called nasal cannula, they supply him with a little oxygen assistance but everything else he is doing on his own. Finally his lungs are working correctly! His feeding tube is also out of his mouth and going in through his nose, i think that makes him a lot happier as well, having nothing in his mouth.

I called Monday morning to check on him and his nurse says to me "He is so awesome..he drank the whole bottle!" I was shocked, the day before he drank 3cc's, and the very next day he chugged 35! That is so amazing! We had been warned that babies having difficulty when it comes to feeding and this sometimes can take a while. On Tuesday we tried but because he gets a little rice cereal with his formula it kept clogging although he was sucking really hard he didn't get anything and then he got tired so we finished the feed through the tube. Yesterday he wasn't interested and last night he was exhausted from an eye exam so the nurse didn't want to push him anymore. Today I got in for his 9am feeding and he downed 40 cc's! I know it probably doesn't sound that amazing, but in his short little life this is a MAJOR accomplishment!!!!!!! GO HENRY!!!!