Here's the update: Mostly, I'm just tired.
Dylan has made lots of great progress over the last 9 weeks. He went from 2 lbs., 3 oz. to today being 5 lbs., 4 oz. He is now on 50% oxygen & is sleeping in a crib. We aren't having residual problems anymore. Dylan is now in Bay 5, the NICU for the least critical babies. I praise God for all the growing Dylan has done over the last months.
It seems like we have now hit a wall & continually running into it wears you out. Dylan is supposed to be bottle feeding, but it is not going well. We started on bottle feeds on December 1st. The drs. thought that he would be heading home in about a week from today & that we would be home before Christmas. I am starting to not think so. Dylan is just not interested in taking the bottle. He either falls asleep while eating or just stares off into space with the bottle in his mouth, but doesn't suck on it at all. He can do it though – that's the frustrating part. There was one day last week when he took half of his feeds by bottle. Now he won't do it anymore. I feel like we have tried everything & he is just not interested.
On the positive side, now the Dylan is older, he can have music in his room. I may have to try to buy the same CD that is in his CD player b/c even though it is supposed to be “lullabies,” it has a lot of hymns & choruses that we sing at church on it. It is just the instrumentals, so if you didn't know the songs, you wouldn't know, but I am starting to love this CD. I will probably buy it for Dylan, but play it at home because I like it :) Hopefully I can track it down somewhere.
Anyway, that's our update – I will be getting picture posted later today!
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