Saturday, November 22, 2008

Kai is doing good. He now weighs 7lbs 4 ozs. He is growing out of a few newborn sleepers. His feedings are improving. We bottle him about 3 times a days and he has been taking on average 20 mls from the bottle before he gets tired. His total amount at each feeding is now at 60 mls (30 mls = 1 oz). When he is awake and not fussing, he is very alert. He started OT (through early intervention) this week. She worked with some positioning. One of the positions is him in this bean bag. He is leaning somewhat towards his left side. He favors his right side a lot. His head on that side is get very flat :( She also worked with some range of motion. Hopefully by doing these other positions, this will help him to not favor his right side. The other night we had an interesting bath night. We gave Kai a bath. Towards the end when we were getting him diapered and dressed, he started vomiting. It was kind of scary for me considering he is so little. I held his head and chest up a little and tilted him to the side so that he wouldn't choke. At first we thought it was because he had eaten right before his bath and he was crying a lot during bath time, but his vomit was not formula. It was yellow and foamy. We finally figured out why he vomited. I clean around his G-tube with peroxide. Some must have gotten in the hole and into his stomach! It couldn't have been much considering I just put some on a Q-tip and then cleaned, but I guess it was enough. I felt so bad after that. I think we will just stick to soapy water when we clean that area. Gavin and Jace are doing good. Jace is improving on his speech. His teacher comes out every week now. There are times that he really searches for the words to use. Both of them are growing up so fast already. We just can't believe it! Gavin is almost done with ECFE. I'm sure he will be disappointed, but at least he will still have Sunday school to go to. We are getting our family pictures done on Tuesday. It is hard to pick out clothes so that everyone matches. Soon we will be putting up our Christmas tree. I can't believe how fast time is flying. The boys are getting excited about Christmas. Until next time!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Kai has gotten so big already!! He looks very comfy & cozy in the beanbag chair!! Glad to hear he is doing so much better with bottles & eating. I love the picture of all of your guys in the last update - so cute!! Hope you are all well,
Kadie, John & Wyatt