Maggie is so close to going home!
Maggie has done remarkably well over the weekend with her feedings and the nurses and doctors say that she's very close to coming home. The oral stimulation has really made a difference in nursing and bottle feedings. I asked the nurses to give Maggie bottles when she indicates she wants to eat. She took an entire feeding via bottle overnight, has really increase the volume she takes nursing and is starting to show more and more feeding cues (wakes when she's hungry, starts rooting, putting her hands in her mouth, etc).
It will probably be a day or two before she moves to cue based feedings (meaning feeding Maggie when she wakes up and is hungry). She's progressing very fast so I've committed to being at the hospital this week for her 11 a.m., 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. feedings.
This quick progress means that it's (finally) a real possibility that we'll be rooming in with Maggie by the weekend and then bringing her home!!! Tomorrow we'll do her car seat test, which is one of the things we need to do still before she comes home. She has to be able to sit in her seat for a certain period of time without any problems. I'm sure she'll do great.
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