Today marks one week since my baby has been alive yet unable to come home. I am extremely grateful for the love and support we've received but am still sad that my baby can't rest at home. Landon is doing well. He had lost some weight, as to be expected, but it slowly gaining it back. Over the weekend, he was down to 4 lbs, 10 oz. Today he weighed 4 lbs, 13 oz. The IV is out and they dressed him in clothes yesterday and his labs are all normal. They are increasing his feedings 4ml every other feeding, so every six hours; today he hit his max at 45ml however, I'm not sure yet how well he was able to keep it down. The nurses are going to start weaning his isolates which means turning down the heat in the incubator 1 degree every 12 hours to see how well he can maintain his own temperature. They said to expect his feedings or weight to go down because we are asking his body to work harder. We visited Landon on ...
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