Double his birth weight!

Truman now weighs 2 lbs, 8.5 ounces, officially doubling (and then some) his birth weight of 1 lb, 4 ounces.

He was having a little trouble with the increased milk volume and was having some Brady/Apnea episodes during feeds, so the the time on the pump that delivers his breast milk was increased to an hour. That seems to have mostly done the trick. They think his tummy was getting too full too fast and squashing his lungs a little.

In case you were wondering exactly how food is delivered, there is a little plastic tube that he swallows (you can see it in all face pictures). Initially, the milk was simply injected into the tube and went straight to his tummy. Now, the syringe full of milk is set on a pump, while injects it into the tube slowly over the course of an hour. The pump is not attached to his body, and the tube is simply swallowed. Lately, he has learned to gag if the feeding tube is removed and a new one inserted.

In two to three weeks, we will begin teaching him to bottle feed. Once he gets the hang of that, we will begin learning to breast feed.

--Kara