Remember when I said a couple days ago that they switched Aidan's suppository order to every 24 hours. Well, Aidan was pretty uncomfortable today with gas pain, and struggled to try to poo all afternoon.
The monitor alarms in the background are *not* for Aidan. It is funny that in the last 10 seconds of the clip, the "ping, ping, ping" sounds like a binky alarm as the pacifier falls out of his mouth, and stops when I put it back in :)
Between his 5pm and 8pm feeding, he wouldn't sleep at all, and acted like he was starving (but I think he was in pain from gas):
They close the NICU from 7-8 every evening while they change shifts, so the nurses can openly talk to each other without parents there. Aidan was acting so much like he wanted to eat, that they had us wait outside the NICU while they discussed the babies, and had us come back in early at 7:30 to feed him.
He chugged down about half his bottle, and then fell right asleep. I held him for about 20 minutes until he sort of woke back up, and then he finally ate the rest of the bottle. He was so exhausted afterwards, he finally slept:
After a second suppository this evening, Aidan finally had a big poop. So much, that he lost 14 grams and is now 2198 (4 lbs, 13.5 oz).
Aidan needs to gain 75 grams in the next 2 days to reach 5 pounds by the Sunday weighing. Funny, he was in this exact position last Friday night, needing 75 grams to reach 4 1/2 pounds by Sunday, which he did exactly.
With the 11pm feeding today, Aidan has taken his last 8 feeding without the need of a feeding tube. This makes it a full 24 hours that he has eaten all of his food by bottle or breast. He is getting really close to not needing the feeding tube at all anymore!!
Denyse wore slippers in public today, really...
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