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March 21 Update: 38 Weeks
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Weight: 2465 g (5 lbs 7 oz)
Feeding: 48 ml/45 (every 3 hours)
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They did another blood gas and a chest X-ray this morning and both looked great, so he’s back on a low flow cannula (we can see more of his face now hooray!) getting .5 liters of oxygen per minute (instead of the 2 he was getting). This was surprising to me since I still saw him retracting tonight, and I’m getting some mixed messages from nurses and nurse practitioners; so I asked for a neonatologist to call with an update. Hopefully, we will get some more info tomorrow.
After giving breastfeeding another try, Matthew got 5 ml of milk from a bottle tonight. The rest he got through his feeding tube while we snuggled.
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