Today Cooper was moved from the CPAP to high flow oxygen! He did really well all day breathing with the high flow, and we're so grateful for the amazing progress he has made respiratory wise.
Yesterday they began fortifying (adding extra calories) to Cooper's breast milk feedings, but unfortunately his stool output dramatically increased, which indicates that he is not tolerating the milk/absorbing the nutrients. They will likely stop fortifying the feeds tomorrow and see if that helps. Coop also lost weight today (dropped from 980 grams to 960), which we anticipated because he clearly wasn't tolerating his feeds. Both breathing and eating are hard work, and we're so happy with how well he's breathing:) Eating will happen soon enough!
Tonight I got to do skin to skin with Cooper for about an hour, and as we were finishing we realized that Cooper's ostomy bag was leaking, and I had poop all over my stomach and pants. His first blowout:) Our cute nurse said, "well if you didn't feel like a mom before, you should now!" It was actually kind of nice to have a normal motherhood moment. :)
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