Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Happy due date Hudson!! Its time to eat!

Today we have a mohawk! I think it is from how he was laying, but I couldn't get it to go down!


Well, they xrayed his tummy yesterday morning, but the doctor didn't make rounds until about 6:00pm. So the nurses had to wait for him to look at the xray and give the okay for the feedings. But, finally at 6:30pm on his due date, March 16th, hudson got to eat a whole 10cc's (1/3 oz) of Alumentum (a hypo-allergenic formula). He took it all well, however the nurse said he looked confused/worried at first.  Like this is not suppose to be happening, something is actually coming out! So at 9:30 after watching him get his bath and being weighed, I got to feed him another 10cc's! which took literally almost 2 whole minutes. haha! It is only like 2 swigs and then its gone! So at 12:30 he was fed the 10cc's and then they bumped him up to 20cc's at 3:30. he has handled it all well , so this morning the nurse practitioner bumped him up to 30cc's, thats a whole ounce!!! She said if the doctor doesn't make rounds until late again today that the nurse practitioner may bump him up some more this afternoon. They have started turning his IV rate down, which is now going at half the rate it was. So everything is going good so far. I just hope and pray that once they start mixing in the breast milk that his tummy will handle that well. Also, he is now up to 7lbs 12.2oz, which is a gain of 6.8oz. He is starting to look a little chubbier. I will try to download more pics later!
Thank you all so much!

Staci

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