Half Update

When up at the hospital last night we received a good progress report on the boys. I thought I would pass it on.

Nathan is now all bottle feeds, no more og tube down to his stomach!!! He was also taken off his caffeine, which is given to remind him to breath. He is now on the "caffeine countdown" and if he goes until March 1st without any big breathing or heart rate dips he will no longer need to be hooked up to his monitor every minute of the day. If he has just one dip, his caffeine countdown will start all over again. Nathan is now 3lbs 5 oz. His average weight gain is 18 grams per day, which is great.

Owen is doing very well with his feeds. He is now able to take almost as much as he would want. I say that because he would eat until the food was gone, even if it meant him getting way over stuffed. Two days ago he was at 30 cc every three hours. Now he is at whatever he wants ever four hours. Yesterday his nurse started offering him 50 cc and he ate it all. When we were there last night Owen had not get gotten his bath or been weighed, but with the amount he eats I am assuming he will have more weight gain. His average daily weight gain is 30 grams per day. Owen is still holding on to his cannula and started making a snorting sound about a week ago. The nurse had Dr. Strange come look at him and he will be visited by an ENT this morning. He may have some irritation in his nose, which upon being fixed could easily help him get off his oxygen. Just in my "non-medical" evaluation last night, I noticed his nostrils were irritated and smaller than Nathans.

The boys seem to enjoy each other more and more every day. They always seem to be a bit fussy when the other one is out of the bed.