Today, when I arrived at the hospital, I discovered that he's been moved out of his "plastic box" into a crib. Yesterday, they had started weaning him out of the isolette, but the nurse had told me that it would probably take 2 days, instead of one since he was still working on the bottle feeding thing too. When they started weaning him out of the isolette, that also meant that he got to wear clothes (my students were relieved to find out that he no longer has to lay around naked all day where people can see him).
He's been doing a little better with his feeds through a bottle. His progress is sort of all over the place though on that one. This morning he nippled 17 mL and this afternoon he did 30. Tonight, however, we decided to try it again and hope for another good feed. He did 12. It was hard to keep him awake for it though and so the rest went through the feeding tube. Talking to a nurse today, I sorted out some of the feeding questions that I had. It was our belief that he had to FINISH all 50 mL of each of the 3 bottles before they upped the number of bottle feeds to 5 and then to 8. According to her, as long as he nipples at least 50% of the 3 bottles, they'll up his bottle feeds. That made us feel a little better, because for him to completely drink those 3 bottles right now seems like a lot of work. Well...and like Josh says....we can't make him drink the 50 mL if he's not hungry for it. At least we're getting somewhere with the suck, swallow, breathe thing. It makes the light at the end of the tunnel seem not so far off.
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