Thursday, June 17, 2010

first bottle...of many

I dont have a picture (yet) of this but I wanted to report the good news! Today the boys had their first bottle. They did great! They ate/drank all 38 ml. So back to the milestones that are important for going home:

a. maintaing body temperature...check!
b. grow.....check!
c. take all 8 feedings orally.....halfway there.

They are on 3 feedings a day from me and one from the bottle. The other 4 are through their ng tubes....and require a lot less effort from the boys. So, we want to pray that the little guys can maintain the stamina to work so hard. Someone descibed it as this:

oral feeding (at first for preemies) is like an adult trying to drink a milkshake from a coffee straw. Wow....yawn!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It won't be long now! :D Drinking a milkshake through a coffee straw- hurts my jaws just thinking about it!

Kristie Seale said...

Way to go Sullivan and Cam!!!