Family time and big eating for Lewis today. This afernoon he ate 5 ml of applesauce for Jenn and really seemed to enjoy it. Lewis' regular feeding schedule was compressed, too. He's now getting 90 ml of milk over 2 hours, with an hour off between feeds (as opposed to 30 ml/h continously, or 90 every 2.5 hours). That started about lunchtime today. The first couple of feedings on the new schedule have gone down well. Compressing the feeding schedule moves Lewis towards being able to take "bolus" feedings and potentially not requiring a pump to deliver milk on a continuous or semi-continous basis. (Bolus = all at once, more like when a baby drinks a bottle of milk).
More importantly, the new schedule means that Lewis is not attached to anything (except monitors), one hour out of each three. That lets us walk around with him, look out the window, even take him out to the waiting area, so that he can have more than one guest at at time.
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