Day 7.5: Leche Loading

Finding out new ways to eat and the nurses are teaching mommy and daddy how to help me swallow a little bit better. They help me to remember when it is feeding time, and they support my chin or rub my cheek to keep me going. Sometimes it is extra hard to stay awake because it is so comfy to cuddle with those guys when I am out of the isolette to eat. They will burp me in the middle of feeding, which tends to both surprise me and make me hungrier. The nurses are giving me 2 more ccs at each feeding, so my IV levels can drop. Now I am up to 32. Pretty impressive, huh? I am gaining some of my birth weight back, too. I never went below 6 pounds, but I am still kind of little. One of my neighbors here is over 10 pounds. She does not have "feeding issues", I guess. Faster eating, fewer cuddles, I say, but Mommy and Daddy are willing to give up a few hugs now to get me home with my brother sooner. Hoping to be there by the weekend, which is like a lifetime when you are week old.