Making Progress

Chloe is growing and making progress every day.  Today puts her at 32 weeks gestational age and she weighed in at 3 pounds 7 ounces, so she's passed her birth weight.  They've changed her feedings from continuous 9.5 mL/hour to bolus feeds.  When they switched over to this, she started at 29 mL over 2 hours, every 3 hours.  Today they upped it to 30mL over 1 hour, every 3 hours.  This is the prelude to teaching her how to take a bottle.  She's not showing much interest in sucking yet, so it may take some time to make the switch from the feeding tube.  (Sucking starts around 32 weeks with the suck, swallow, breath rythem developing around 34 weeks.)  She's continuing to maintain her temperature well inside the isolette, which is now set at 27 degrees C (approaching room temperature of 20-23 degrees C, or 68-73 degrees F.)

The NICU has a camera on her at all times except when the nurses are caring for her so we can see her at any time.  Here are some photos we took using the NICU camera of her in her isolette.