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This week we spent time getting Nicolas used to the taste of food and at the same time helped him learn how to coordinate swallowing and breathing - two skills I usually take for granted. Until I eat too fast and choke on some General Tao's chicken... or something. :-)
Nicolas is having NO chinese food yet though. He's getting all his nutrition via the Martha con Amor Milk. It's a slow process with him because he is still pretty small (he did double his birth weight today though - 3lbs and 12 ounces - 1711 grams!). But eating takes energy and he's still a little boy. On average he can manage to take half his feed (40 CCs - 1.35 ounces - every 4 hours) via bottle and the rest is given to him via the gavage tubes. Martha is best at feeding him and when she does it - he takes the whole feed.
It's great to see him grab ahold of the bottle and eat with crazed enthusiasm -- and then see his eyelids close as he falls fast asleep -- all within a span of seconds. Something I rarely get to do anymore. Ah... enjoy it while you can little boy.... :-)
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