Salem is steadily gaining...

He gets weighed every night around 10pm... he is gaining around 24 to 27 grams...which is right around an ounce a day...(1 ounce = 28.3495231 grams) so that is GREAT!!!!

He weighs 3 pounds 3 ounces...now... and is such a little cutie...
Annie the occupational therapist is going to start evaluating him to see when he can have his first feeding via the "normal" way... a bottle, instead of what the call "gavage" feeding...
Gavage means the introduction of nutritive material into the stomach by means of a tube, which is feed through the nose and goes directly into the stomach.

looks like it could be within the week, yahooo!!!!

Salem has been praying too!

just a tad smaller....

Salem has slipped a teeny tiny bit...
he's at 1338 grams or 2 lbs 15 ounces (he was 1360 on Saturday)
They haven't upped his feedings... he's still at 27 ml...

The nurse said that it could be an adjustment to being taken off IV fluids. It's all about him gaining weight now on just strictly feedings.

Seems like whenever we visit, he knows it's close to grub time, he starts squirming and make noise, boy likes his food.

Milestone!!!! 3 POUNDS!!!!!

1361 grams, 48 ounces, 4.6666 stone, 3 pounds

This is what 3 pounds looks like!!!

3 lbs even.

26 ml or 5.2 teaspoons per feedings.(I can't believe he's up to that amount)

He spits up, which seems weird since he gets fed through the nose, but manages to keep most of it down.

Salem had another echo-cardiogram... it came back clean, originally it showed 2 small holes in his heart, but they were not able to detect them the second time... self correcting..Hallelujah!!!!!!

He has a small bleed on his brain. He had a second head-ultrasound today, I read the results and came to the conclusion that there are a lot of really big medical words that I can barely pronounce, let alone understand. We should get together with the the Dr. tomorrow to discuss results.

~Tree