Day 5...No more mask!!

No more mask! Our little guy is moving right along. He is now on a nasal canula instead of his CPAP mask. The nasal canula provides a little less pressure so we're seeing how his lungs are holding up. They switched him over around 4:00 today and he's been doing great. The canula has three levels, 1,2 and 3. When they moved him from the CPAP they moved him straight to level 2 and if he behaves he can move down to one and then zero!


Now that the mask is off we even get to hold him! He has also started nippling and no longer has the little feeding tube in his mouth....he did not like it and kept ripping it out....so good thing he's doing great with the bottle. He's up to eating 11 ml every three hours....and will start 16 ml at 11:00 tonight. He's ready for more....when I finished giving him his bottle at 8:30 he was still moving his head all around looking for more. :) I think he's going to be an eater just like his sister!!!