Nothing too exciting to report today with the Coopster. He has continued on oxygen, because unfortunately his oxygen saturation seems to fall without it. His care team doesn't seem too concerned about it. Our little guy has been fighting hard and enduring a lot, and he's just tired. If this little boost makes it easier for him to focus his energy on healing and growing, that's just fine with us.
They also gave him a shot today to help stimulate his kidneys and bone marrow to produce more red blood cells to help his anemia, so that's yet another thing we're asking his little body to do! Yesterday Mat said "he's so little, I can touch his ear and his butt at the same time with one hand!" Cooper is up around 2 oz from his birth weight, which is good. We're not sure though how much of that is water weight from the IVs and how much is real weight gain. Hopefully once they allow him to start eating, he will seriously bulk up!
Speaking of eating, they will hopefully start allowing him to have tiny amounts of breast milk on Wednesday, and will start ramping him up from there. It sounds like at first they start with an NG tube and then move on to bottles and finally get him to start breastfeeding. Hopefully we'll get more of a clear roadmap of his feeding plan tomorrow or Wednesday.
Today he really seemed to enjoy his skin to skin. I'm amazed at how strong he is. He can pick up his head and can flop it from side to side. He doesn't have much control over it, but I'm just amazed watching him lift up his little head. I didn't realize that newborns could do that!
Let's see what tomorrow brings. We should get the results of tonight's blood counts to see how he's trending. There will also be an eval from GI to re-review the liver ultrasound and get the final sign off for him to start getting milk!
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