Joy tried nursing Julian today for the first time. This is all part of teaching Julian to suck, swallow and breath. Apparently, like his sister, he has a "disorganized latch." In plain English that's "he moves his tongue around like a crazy person when he supposed to be drinking."
Julian gained about 50g over the last 2 days.
His oxygen requirement has steadily gone up, except for today. So we're not sure if that's ok. When I asked some of the medical staff they seemed somewhat unconcerned, but that if it continued to progress they'd do an x-ray.
Oh - he's the 0.3 percentile in weight. For you math haters, that means that, as compared to all babies his gestational age, he is lighter than 99.7% of them. If you took 1000 babies and lined them up from smallest to largest he would be 3rd in line. He has varied between 0.2 and 1 since birth. So I presume the estimates aren't that accurate on the 0-1 range.
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