monday

The big news of the day is that Collin tried breast feeding for the first time!  (Sorry no photographs ;) haha!)     (Thanks to nurse Elaine for showing us how to breast feed)  Since he is still very tiny and doesn't know quite what he's doing yet, they had me pump first so that little to no milk would come out, so he could learn to latch and not get drowned in milk!  He did pretty well and they ran his feeding through the nose tube at the same time so he can start relating the full belly feeling to the sucking motions he is doing!

Collin is still doing a lot of time hanging out under the bubble to give his little nose a break..he's having more frequent apnea today,  so they will have to suction his nose and hope that works.  Its such a catch 22 because every time they suction is causes further irritation and swelling, but if they don't do it he gets full of boogers!

Other than the nose stuff he is really doing great!  Everyone here is impressed with his steady weight gain and every nurse that walks by his room does a double take at his crib and they all come in and congratulate him for moving up in the world :)