Cooper is 3 months old today! It's hard to believe how far he's come, and we're so thankful for his amazing progress.
Today Cooper's blood pressure has still been high, so they continued to increase the blood pressure medication he's receiving. They are keeping a close eye on his pressures and hopefully they will decrease and stay consistently normal.
Cooper is up to a high volume of milk. He's receiving about 2.5 ounces every three hours, either by his NG tube or orally. Today he actually threw up 3 times, but it wasn't a huge amount so we're not too worried. He wasn't super interested in taking feeds with the bottle or breastfeeding today, but we're working with a developmental therapist daily and she's confident that he will become more interested as he continues to grow and his stomach gets used to the amount of food he's now eating. Again, it's all a slow process. However, despite that it feels like he's not super interested in taking most of his feeds orally, he's taking about 24% of them each day. Last week he wasn't taking any, so it's good progress! We're learning patience in so many ways.
He lost a little bit of weight today, and weighs 3140 grams, or 6 lbs 14 oz.
Today we asked the nurse practitioner for an estimate about when Cooper will be ready to come home. She said Halloween is probably a fair estimate. We're hoping that it's sooner, but obviously want Cooper to be ready to thrive when he leaves Primary's. We'll see what the next few weeks bring!
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