Today was a yet another good day.
Cooper has decided he likes this bottle thing a little more. Starting with the 5 am feeding, and every feeding since, he has taken at least an ounce by bottle. His last two bottles he has taken 40 mls and 50 mls. Hopefully his breathing won't hold him back through the night. It would be great if he would just take 30 mls per feeding throughout the night.
Cooper remained off oxygen the entire day. However, by tonight he was having a hard time keeping his saturations above 95%. When we weighed him tonight, he was 9 pounds 12 ounces. Up 4 ounces. They only wanted/expected him to gain 1 to 2 ounces. I won't be surprised if he needs another dose of lasix tomorrow. It really seemed to help him yesterday and this morning. My untrained eyes could even see that his breathing was better controlled and not so fast after the last two doses of lasix. I will not be surprised if he is on oxygen by tomorrow morning.
Over all, he is still doing great.
On another note, I found out today that another CDH baby may be arriving soon in the NICU. We had heard that for some reason they seem to get CDH babies in threes. We were the first, and I had heard before that they were expecting the others in January and February. Well, the January baby is expected to be arriving soon. I hope that everything goes well for them. And hopefully we will be able to help them through some things as parents who have just gone through the same thing.
Good Night.
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