Not Yet...

Dr. Lee met with us this morning and William is doing perfectly fine health wise. The problem is that he is just not eating enough. Right now it is a struggle to keep him awake to eat 45mL of formula/breastmilk from a bottle. He should be eating 60mL (minimally) per feeding. So...she would like us to stick around until we are succesful at getting him to eat. We asked if she thought that there might be a neurological reason why he gets sooo sleepy and lazy when it comes time to eat and she assured us that this wasn't the case. He is just a lazy eater. Like everything else with this guy, he will probably turn it around, but on his own time.

The good news is that he is completely off all his monitors and gets to room in with us from now on. So, we get to have him by ourselves and hang out with him all day privately, just in a little cubicle of a room instead of our own house. While we wish we were home, it has been sort of nice to have a team of nurses who we can turn to with any questions. We know that we are putting a diaper on and burping correctly, we know that the little noises that a newborn makes aren't anything to worry about, etc. In a way its been nice to have been "eased" into parenthood with the help of the nurses.

Lets hope that Little Will decides he likes food today. We keep telling him that there's no way he can be ours if he doesn't like to eat! :-)