Carsten's feeding has perhaps turned the corner.... But we have seen so many momentary signs of progress only to later see a setback. He definitely is closer to taking every feed by bottle. Since last Tuesday at 3 pm, he has taken every bottle feed that he has been given. Still it is every other feed (4 hours apart initially, now scaled back to 3 hours).
At this point (three weeks now), we remain in the hospital to work on and improve his feeding to an acceptable level to go home. What is acceptable? We don't know. Regardless of how much he improves in bottle feeding and his ability to take all of those feeds, we probably will go home with feeding tube equipment. The question will be how much it will be used or will it be available to us if he would need it. Either way, we are ready to go home. I feel like we are in fourth grade waiting for the last month of school to end. Didn't those last few days and weeks seem like forever?
