Breathing on his own

So the decision today was to remove Wyatt's nasal prongs. Yesterday, they spent most of the day in his mouth, on his lip, near his eyes...anywhere but in his nose. So this morning, they came off and in the evening, the nurse removed the adhesive on his little soft cheeks. He's doing very well without them!

Tomorrow, he's scheduled for the head ultrasound and a repeat bilirubin.

The concern today is his weight loss. He has now lost 12% of his birth weight. They keep upping his feeds, as well as adding a high calorie powder when they gavage him. The first few feeds at 56 mL, he was spitting up quite often, but the last couple of feeds today, he managed to keep nearly everything down. Between that and sleeping most of the day, hopefully he will have managed to at least maintain his current weight. I'll let you tomorrow evening how everything goes.