Great news! Look at his big tummy everyone! Noah has gone up to 7 mls of breast milk every two hours now! They are increasing his feeds every 12 hours by 1 ml. So this afternoon he will be on 8 mls and tomorrow he will be on 9 mls then 10mls tomorrow afternoon!!!!!!!! That means he will be on full feeds for his size and the central line can come out after he has been on full feeds for 24 hours !!!!!
When he was born he weighed 750gms. After birth it is completely normal for babies to lose weight and Noah's weight plummeted to only 640gms. That was quite distressing for us to see him grow even smaller.
When he was born he weighed 750gms. After birth it is completely normal for babies to lose weight and Noah's weight plummeted to only 640gms. That was quite distressing for us to see him grow even smaller.
But once he started on his feeds he put on 30gms in two days. They weigh him every two days and the target is to gain 15-30gms. Noah has put on 30gms every two days. So he went from 750gms to 640gms, then to 670gms then to 700gms and now he is 730gms. They said it normally takes about 3 weeks for them to get back to their birth weight and Noah has almost done it in a week!!!
He loves his tucker. They feed him through a little tube that goes into his mouth and right down into his stomach. Before they put the milk through the line they pull back on the syringe to see if there is any undigested milk in his tummy first. There is never any there because he gobbles it all up! He loves his mama's milk!!
They feed him through the tube because premature babies haven't got a good sucking reflex. But I think that Noah will prove them all wrong (as usual) because he has a little dummy and if you hold it in place he sucks that dummy like there is no tomorrow!!
That is awesome! They had told us that they wouldn't learn to suck until 34 weeks...well nobody told our baby A that because by 34 weeks he was home! Bet your Noah will be too!
ReplyDelete