Yesterday marked Jackson's fifth week in the NICU and progress is slow but steady. He is now up to 4 lbs 10 ozs and nurses tease that for such a little guy he still has the triple chin action. He has set feeding times every three hours and when he is alert he is doing well even finishing a full bottle on his own. But he still gets himself into trouble sometimes forgetting to breath during a feed or failing to deal with reflux and then he has alarms and reverts to a tube feed. We know he is anxious for the feeding tube to come out as he has started pulling it out on his own just to keep the nurses busy.
We are busying ourselves to make sure the house is ready for his homecoming and anxiously awaiting word that he is strong enough to go home. In the meantime we enjoy spending time with him in Pod G and snapping cute photos of our little guy.
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