One of the check marks the boys need to earn is feeding on their own - bottle or breast. While the boys are practicing both, we are learning this is something the boys must be developmentally ready to coordinate sucking with breathing and swallowing. Every day is different for Jameson and Henry. Two nights ago, the boys took a bottle for the night nurse (20 ml for Henry, 15 ml for Jameson), then completed the rest of their feeding via NG tube. Yesterday however, both boys stopped breathing with the bottle, turned blue (which no mother wants to see that!) and took a little longer than normal to catch their breath again.
As one nurse shared: In the NICU, it is a lot of 2 steps forward, 1 step back...
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| Dad giving Henry a bottle for the first time |
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| Burping Henry |
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| Milk Face |
These boys will be great dancers with their practice of one step forward two steps back! Cori
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