We are all headed there this morning to see Malachi, finally. The other children haven't seen him in a long time. Jacob and Addie were sick so they only got to see him before he was transferred to Children's on the 2nd, Zackary and Ellie got to see him on the 4th, but then came down with the gombu. Needless to say they are soooooo excited to see their baby brother.
Malachi is doing well, so well. He is still not eating anywhere what they need him to but he is becoming more and more interested in eating and that's a good thing. Sam has been his best advocate and between he and Dr. Aiken everyone is now on board with a cue based eating/feeding schedule rather than a torture the baby until he's awake and force him to eat schedule. Malachi wasn't having any of the later schedule anyway and they were lucky if he drank 2-7 mls when they tried to wake him and make him eat every 3 hours. He now gets to eat what he wants when he wants and we will work toward the 24 hour goal rather than the every 3 hour amount.
I finally get to go feed my baby! We don't get to nurse yet because they still need to monitor what he's getting and it makes for a fairly stressful experience for mother and baby to have a bunch of people in the room stripping him down and weighing him before, every few minutes during, and after on the breastfeeding scale. It's okay, I am happy just to be able to go and hold him and give him a bottle. We'll get the nursing thing down when there doesn't have to be a team of people involved and it can be what God intended. Hopefully he just needs his mama and he'll start eating like a champ and then he can come home.
The light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter :)
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I am so happy that you all get to go see him and that he is doing well. We pray for him to get home soon!!
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