Cohen has officially been home for one week. Today's weigh in: 10 lbs 5 oz! His newborn clothes are bursting at the seams. I will get over my denial that he can't possibly be moving onto 0-3 month clothes. It's so weird when we think about the days where we could never imagine him fitting into even the teeniest tiniest clothes. He is eating like a champ although he still pretty much only feeds at night. We will see his pediatrician next week and ask about letting him wake up when he wants to eat instead of just tube feeding him every three hours. We have been slow to make too many changes because we want to make sure he is still getting enough so that he has enough energy to support his heart and lungs.
His home health nurse came today and I had lots of questions about his feedings and his sleeping. It's hard for me to know what are "normal" baby things and what are still preemie baby things. But I feel like we are starting to get to know him better and make some decisions based on that. We will make another appointment with his pediatrician next week to talk about some of our questions. All in all, everything is going well! Cohen has started being a lot more vocal, making little baby noises and even crying once in awhile when he needs to let us know something. He has been loving his play time, laying on the floor and kicking his legs. Last night he even put one of his toys into his mouth all by himself! It's nice to start celebrating real baby things like kicking and eating toys instead of celebrating good lab work, oxygen weaning, and chest xray improvement (although those things were great too!)
Here's a video of our little fellow that we got last night during his play time. Kinda long, but he's cute so it's okay. (sorry if you tried to watch it before...I may have gotten distracted and forgotten to actually put the video on. Oops!)
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