Learning to eat

You would think it is simple - we all have to do it and most of us enjoy it more than we probably should but Henry just needs to learn how to eat. He is making progress. Occupational Therapy came by this morning and gave me a few tips. It seems (logical enough) that Henry is just needing a smaller amount. I suppose when a baby is born they get the little bit of colostrum then as the production comes in more and more each day the baby adjusts and consumes more. The first nurse said not to worry because you don't want him to work too hard to get food - well he was getting too much too fast and hardly trying at all. So they have put him on a "binky bottle" which works really well. He had 10ml about an hour ago and then slept. They are considering putting a tube to his stomach to get his quantity up so he can get off the nutrient drips faster. I don't know if this will delay things or not but we will see if they even want this done. He needs to consume a couple of ounces every 2 -3 hours so we are a bit of a ways away :-(.

Drew is now home in Montana, George was pretty happy to see him (of course) - check out the video.....




They went to go pick up Bodie who oddly enough (very sarcastic) was injured even more (his own doing) while we were gone. He decided to escape from a six foot kennel while ripping his stitches (that were about to come out) even more leaving him in a semi body cast. Did we mention we could never thank the people that have come forward to help us enough???? This is yet another reason why!