On Halloween night, Cooper pulled out his NG (feeding) tube from his nose. We weren't really having to use it much for a few days prior, so we decided to see how he did on Sunday before putting it back in. Cooper took his full amount of feeds with a bottle, so he is now officially tube free! It's kind of surreal to not have any tubes/lines/monitors attached to him for the first time in his entire life. He's like a real baby, or something:) We're so happy to be done with the NG tube!
I thought the timing of going NG free was interesting. If you remember, the first nurse practitioner in the infant unit told us she thought we would be home by Halloween without the NG tube. Thankfully, the second practitioner sent us home two days later. But she was right... Cooper did it by Halloween!
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