They increased his food intake from 3cc to 4cc of milk every 2 hours, and are now fortifying it with 22 calories per ounce fortifier. They also started giving him Vitamin E today to help with eye development.
Dr Kaempf stopped by to talk to us in the NICU. He is still very upbeat on Aidan's progress and mentioned that he would expect him to still need CPAP for at least a couple weeks.
Aidan gets his CPAP hat reset every 12 hours.
Aidan doesn't like the hat much, would you?
Aidan now weighs 1 lb 12.9 oz, up 10 grams from yesterday.
The monkey fell on the floor, and came home to get washed...
More pictures from day 8:
3 comments:
Happy 1 week birthday sweet baby boy. Keep on fighting and hope you get bigger and stronger every day. All my love, Grandma Anita
I am so happy he is here and doing so well. thank you so much for this link, so we can see his progress. Love you guys. Can't wait to "see" him and Denyse Thursday.
Sending our love.
Jenn Komp
Denyse/Rick,
Sending well wishes and prayers for Aidan's continued growth and strength.... He's an Angel!
Dianne Smith
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