good few days

on friday the doctor spoke with ricky and sia Lewis is doing really well and just has to grow and get a bit stronger and he'll be off upstairs to another ward, which means he'll be close to getting home, he also said they fluid isn't building back up again so they won't be doing anymore xrays for it unless they feel they need to, he was weighed again on friday and was 3.84kg. they also changed his feeds to getting 24 mils of milk all at once every hour, before he was getting it over the whole hour on a drip. dont think the 24 mils was enough though as he was wakening up and getting grumpy and looking for his feed just before the hour was up. he was quite a bit sick on saturday though he's on meds for the reflux.
On sunday night they gave him his last hourly feed of 24 mils at 8pm and then at 10pm he was getting 50 mils every 2 hours.

On Monday guess who got out of the incubator and into a proper big cot and guess who got his 1st try with a bottle feed, though he only took 10 mils it's more to get him used to it at the minute and get him used to sucking and swallowing, though sometimes he forgot to do both at the same time and was either choking on it or spitting it out, he was also weighed again and is 3.95kg, at least he's gaining weight quite steadily. Also had been quite a bit sick on monday as well. Tried him again with the bottle later on and he took 16 mils, done much better that time, no spit outs, he's on carobel which is fat free milk and also they put a thickener in it and he doesn't like the taste of it, don't blame him though it doesn't smell very nice either, he just kept looking at me as if i was giving him something poisonous. but then went to giveing me the biggest smiles ever, so cute.

Theres 3 bed bays in the NICU ward and Lewis was in the 3rd which is the one farthest away from the door, they say the closer they get to the door, the closer they are to getting home,Lewis was moved out of the end room on monday and into.....the 1st room which is a 4 bed bay, so only 4 babies in there and as it's the first room theres barely any machines etc so it's much quieter in there woohoo so pleased.

 and update for today, the flow on the blender had been turned down twice during the night and is not at 3.5 litres and at 30% oxygen, when he gets to 2 litres he can go on the low flow woohoo. the flow was turned down again to 3 litres but after the biggest paddy i've ever seen him take it was turned back up to 3.5, poor wee man was soooooo hot and was sweaty, his heart rate was going away up and his resp thing kept alarming, not sure what was wrong with him but nurse said wind, to me it wasn't wind though, she gave him some paracetomol and he settled down.
today i've done his tube feeds a few times, then tonight they give me the pack to read telling me how to do it and have to get it signed off to say i've been observed etc, don't know why bother giving me that to read telling me how to do it when they've let me do it all day lol
anyway that's all for now thought i'd better do an update, finding the time is hard, it's good that ronald mcdonald has wifi but don't get much time to get on my laptop at all, we're only here at night to sleep we spend all day at the hospital.

Soooooooo proud of Lewis and how far he's come in nearly 5 weeks, he's done better than any1 expected of him, he's just a wee star.