Owen's up to 7/8 feeds off the gavage now. Also this week, he passed his hearing test, passed his car seat challenge (doesn't that sound like something on a game show?), passed his first occupational therapist evaluation, and passed a lot of gas. I also am now allowed to non-non-nutritively breastfeed once a day. He does this hilarious ravenous baby thing before he settles in to it - I'd post video but it wouldn't be rated G. Take my word that it's very amusing.
We are incredibly close to taking him home, so it's really frustrating that the doctors continue to say "expect that he'll be home around his due date." Man, that's still three weeks away! So I sort of pushed him on it...the only thing holding him up is eating unassisted, and when I asked the doctor if there's any reason to expect his bottling advancement rate to slow down, he said no. Which, of course, puts him at feeding on his own in the next day or two. Which puts him home next week. To which the doctor replied, again, expect that he'll be home around his due date. The most promising thing I've heard yet was "plan on two more weeks and be pleasantly surprised."
Fingers crossed for a very pleasant surprise in the next few days.
Got my finger on the purchase button for airline tickets. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm imagining what the ravenous baby thing is like...as I recall Evan doing something similar. Basically just attacks you with his mouth? :)
ReplyDeleteEssentially, yeah - he gets this really intense look on his face and then pretty much goes for the mouth attack, and he starts waving his arms wildly. I have to imagine it's harder for him to get a good latch when I'm laughing ;)
Deleteall guys do that when presented with a nipple
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