Day 3

Today is day three and Brody is doing very well. He ate for the first time this afternoon. He had a little formula at 1:30 p.m. and food from Mom at 6:30 p.m. At this point he is fed through a small syringe into a tube in his mouth. It will be a very long time before he will eat from a bottle. As long as he tolerates small amounts of food, he will be fed at 12:30 a.m. and 6:30 a.m.  Other tubes are still in the umbical cord to give him other core nutrients.

Brody is an expert at pulling at and spitting out the tube in his mouth. The food syringe was taped to the isolette and he pulled that down. The next time we visited the NICU, the syringe had been moved to a holder. In addition to pulling out the tube, he likes to hold the cords and makes sure his hands are in the way when the nurses are trying to care for him. Mommy got to change her first diaper today and he was all over that too. The diaper wasn't too pretty when done, but oh well, we have plenty of time to practice.  Also, he loves to hang his little leg over the side of his blankets.

Just Chillin'

The cotton around his head is to keep his mouth closed so the c-pap can supply air pressure for his lungs.

Little leg hanging out