7 weeks old/ 50 days old

    Tuesday turned out to be a pretty good day. Cole ate well and while I was home having dinner,  he had a bottle. I was kind of afraid that he wouldn't eat for me at the 8:30 feeding but he did. So the nurse asked about feeding him a bottle at his night cares if he woke up for them. Wednesday morning I called to see how it went, and they said that they had put him on a 4 hour feeding plan. This is where he is in charge. He can wake up when he wants to eat, but it has to be before 4 hours. He had been doing great. When I came into feed him he ate really well in the morning. At rounds they were even talking about discharge for this weekend, early next week. It was kind of exciting.
        Then in the afternoon he got really sleepy and wouldn't wake up to eat. They let him sleep for a while and then tried a bottle, but during the bottle he had a huge A & B. (where his breathing and heart beat go down for a while) He was very pale and coma like afterwards. They told me that he would most likely need sometime to recover from it and not to be surprised if he sleeps through the next couple of feedings. It was a scary experience. I was pretty shaken up the rest of the day.
    Today it seems like he was back to his old schedule. He ate well at the 8:30am feeding and then slept through the 11:30am feeding. Then he ate his 2:30pm feeding. Hopefully he can add one more feeding in at a time. I think we will have better success if he does it slowly.

   I found out that one of my friends that had fetal surgery is on hospital bed rest that the hospital. So I was able to visit her this afternoon. Her water has broke and they are hoping to keep her pregnant for a bit longer. She is almost 30 weeks. I took her on a tour of the NICU. We have another friend that just posted today that her little guy isn't doing very well. He was home from NICU  for about a week then started showing signs of needing a shunt. They had the surgery last week and have been home for just a couple day. Since the surgery he hadn't been acting normal. Crying a lot, breathing different. The moring of his first appointment to check on his shunt, he stopped breathing. She calling 911 and he was rushed to the hospital. He is on a breathing tube and they are still trying to find out what is wrong. Our hearts goes out to these two families.