Mom got to hold Rhys today. Lola was there as well to see baby boy. This time he was awake for the visit. He looked right at her. He was very alert and quite interested it seemed in the things going on around him.

He gained some weight, but only 10 grams today. He’s at 3lbs 14ozs now. Feeds are giving him some problems. His heart rate goes down now and then, and you have to rub his back to get him started back up again. It’s a normal thing for a preemie but I’ll never get used to it. He’s on some medication now to help out with his problems with feeding and it seems to be helping. Time will tell. Feeds are every 2 hours right now, and we need to get him feeding less often with more volume. That’s the goal. The good news is his lungs are sounding quite nice now. There’s still scratchy sounds but they seem more from his nose than from his lungs… Slowly but surely we’ll get there. Here he is in his iso: