Graduation Day!

Well we just got a phone call from the NICU. Noah is doing so well he is being moved from NICU1 down to NICU2!! So our baby is no longer in highest level of NICU!! Yay! Noah looks pretty happy about it too!

Noah was weighed again today and put on another 50 grams!!!!! So he is now 880 grams! If he keeps going at this rate he will be a kilo in less than a week! His feeds have gone up to 12 mls every two hours. We think it has a lot to do with refusing to give the nurses fresh milk and insisting that they defrost all the milk that Kim pumped in the first two weeks. They have it all in the freezer there and there is a sign on the door of the freezer that says that you should give the baby the milk in this order. 1. Colostrum 2. First two weeks of breast milk (whether fresh or frozen as it still has a higher fat content) 3. Fresh breast milk 4. If no fresh breast milk available, then use any frozen breast milk  5. Formula (a last resort).

The nurses are pretty pushy in getting fresh milk off Kim because i think the colostrum is thicker and takes a while to go down the tube, so they have to spend more time feeding him and defrosting milk etc, but she is pretty good at putting her foot down and telling them to defrost the colostrum first. She says that she wont give them fresh milk until the first two weeks worth of milk are used. Luckily she has insisted because it looks as though it is paying off big time. They like to see babies put on 15 to 30 grams every two days. Noah either puts on the maximum or more each and every time!!! But our little man has always been an over achiever!!! Go Noah!!