Connie made huge progress in oral intake this week. During his therapy on Tuesday he actually ate at least 3 tbsp. of vanilla yogurt. He wasn't crazy about the blueberry, but loved the vanilla. Later that day he had 3 tbsp of banana yogurt. Yesterday he ate gerber pureed carrots! About 3 tbsp. that time too. He's opening up for the spoon and swallowing. He's still not great about taking it off the spoon. He wants to put it in himself (control issues/fear) and he bites down on the spoon and won't let go for a few seconds. He's also loving water out of the Nuk sippy cup. He kind of stopped doing so hot with the bottle, mainly just chewing on it.
His weight went up another .5 oz. this week. He had a huge bm right before the weigh in, though.
We've sped up his feeds to go in over 1/2 hour rather than taking an hour to go in. He's tolerating that well. By the end of the week or early next week we'll bump up his 4 daytime feeds to 170 mL each time and reduce the overnight feeding by 40 mL. Hopefully we can keep that trend going until he is off the overnight continuous feeding and only eats during the day (like most humans!)
Sorry that the updates have slowed down. We don't have much news and haven't been out so we don't have much to talk about! No news is good news, that's for sure!
Mookie is turning three tomorrow and is so excited about her "blue bunny cake" that we'll be having.
