Day 35; just sleeping and growing

Today no much news either, and no news is good news at this point in time. Although Loki appear to lose a few grams again, he was weighed on a different scale. He still looks to me as if he is growing every day. His face looks more mature and his legs are just a little chubbier. I had a chance to hold him again today. We cuddled for a good 45 minutes. Although Loki was not satting (oxygen saturation in his blod) extremely high, I heard some secretion in his airway, and he was very calm and sleepy on my chest. When he went back into his incubator, he was suctioned (which happens several times a day) and a whole bunch of slimy secretion came out of his throat. His saturation went up immediately afterwards!

Dad bought a freezer today to store all the milk I am producing. Yay! We can have food in our freezer again! There seems to be some confusion about Loki's feeding: He does get breast milk with a fortifier (extra calories) mixed in. However, he still receives it through his OG (orogastric) tube in his mouth, through which it directly goes into his stomach. He does not have the swallow/suck coordination developed as expected in older babies. Hopefully in three or four weeks we can start practicing breastfeeding. (They call the first practice recreational breastfeeding as it is not really for nutritional purposes yet.)

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