Since we have been home, I call to check on Ethan around 2am and 6am every morning. When I called at 2am, his nurse was out on her break and the other nurse asked me to call back to get an update. When I called at 6am, I was put on hold as Ethan was now eating ( I seemed to have a knack for mealtimes today).
Ethan has been a very good boy since we left him last night at 6:30pm. Not too fussy for the nurses and he has been taking to his feedings well. When we left he was on 5ml (1 tsp) every 4 hours, which they increased to every 3 hours sometime around midnight. He has been taking that very well and has had no residual. His neonatologist has said that they can start to increase his feedings, so at 6am, he was given 10ml and he also gave a nice burp and went to sleep instead of fussing for more food. So happy they are starting to feed him more :)
His schedule now will be feeding every 3 hours, and at every other feeding if he is handling things well, they will increase his food intake by 5ml. After they do an increase, the next feeding they will decrease his IV fluids by 1.5ml. This is a huge step in the right direction as we want him off the iv.
Our next update from the hospital will come when we get our daily call from the neonatologist. It is my goal to be back at the hospital around lunch time in order to visit Ethan.
On a side note-Loryn has been asking to visit the "baby room" several times a day. Last night when watching Kermit the Frog on tv, she asked him "what's wrong?" followed by asking him if "he wanted to go to the baby room too". She is very interested in seeing her baby brother and all the other babies and she loves to go to the hospital and look into the window of the nursery on the other side of the floor from the NICU.
The next update will be from Eric later tonight.
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