October 25th: We talked today about what is going on with Duke’s oxygen levels and his feeding so the doctors increased his times again to over 30 minutes and he was struggled at first, but his feeds got better after the initial one. It’s a tricky balance to get the right balance and position for my little bird as he eats. He defiantly knows how to let us know when he was uncomfortable and wanted to be held. This always calms him with a little reading and back patting.
(Ready for Halloween) The bottle feeding went well today. His first feed was 5 ml and he destated twice. The speech therapist gave me a recommendation for his next feed of doing 3 nutrative (deep) sucks then taking the bottle out to make him get a pattern of breath. The next feed he took 15 ml (HUGE!!!). He will have a good start of bottle boot camp at rehab.
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