Eating Progess

For babies to leave the NICU they have to meet 3 requirements which include: maintaining their own temperature, gaining weight, and taking in all food by mouth. Thus far Ellie has conquered keeping temperature and gaining weight so is just lacking the food intake. We have ventured to give her bottles and she likes those quite a bit. She has to intake full doses of her food by mouth for 24 hours which started at 10:00pm last night so that process has started. Emily has noticed that Ellie has been waking up 30 min before her feeding time ready to eat. One final test is the car seat test which is placing her in the car seat for 4 hrs and checking to see if her heart and respritory rate drop in that time period.