Maggie is doing much better. She had her breathing tube removed early Wednesday morning and is breathing well on her own, with only 20% O2. She is a lot more awake and alert. It's amazing how even 10 hours can make such a difference. When we saw her Wednesday morning/afternoon she was still quite swollen (from IV fluids and lack of moving around), still quite uncomfortable when moved and whimpering. I was able to hold her and she got comfortable and settled into a good nap. When we returned that evening, her swelling had gone down a lot, but she had a strange rash. While I was holding her I noticed she was having some apnea episodes. So not much new, but she looks and sounds so much better! We even got some smiles from her yesterday which was great.
Jack has decided to make it a lot easier on mommy and daddy! 1:30 Wednesday morning he took 47ml of his 50ml bottle! Then at 10:30am and 1:30pm he took all of his bottle! At 7:30 he took 35ml of his new 45ml recipe bottle. He is doing great! He didn't even have any reflux or breathing issues during his feeds. He has been really active the past couple of days, crawling all over me and even learning how to pull on my shirt or hair. He seems to like to do push ups on my chest, so I'm looking forward to getting him home for tummy time. For now our next goal is to get him to 100% bottle feeding, and then we'll move to feeding quantity on demand. Really, just one step at a time though and we're not going to push him.
Brian and I are doing OK. This has taken quite it's toll on us, but we are hanging in there. Again, thank you to everyone for your support!
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