28 1/7 almost at birth weight

Zane remains on the vent, it is hoped that he will grow quicker as the vent will do most of the work of his breathing and allow him to use his calories for growth.  Although this is was the plan, no one told Zane and he continues to breath over the vent and use his calories to watch what is happening in the outside world. He opens his eyes to our voices and will wiggle and squirm as funny as it sounds he has a personality and he lets you know what he likes and what bothers him. If a heel warmer is placed on his foot he starts to have desaturations--I can only attribute this to fact that he somehow realizes warmth on his foot is followed by a stick and someone squeezing his foot. When Samatha kangroo's him (this is where he is placed inside her shirt and he is skin to skin with her) his heart rate goes down to 150's and he looks comfortable, when he is moved back to the isolate and placed in his snugglie it takes him 15-30 minutes to calm down. I can only wonder how all these experiences will affect him later in life.

Zane is still being "fed" 1.5 ml of breast milk every six hours. He has tolerated the feeds and his stomach remains soft. Hopefully be the end of the week they can start to increase his feeds this will help him gain weight.  He is still having high glucose readings but has not received any insulin in the last 24 hours.  He is looking pale tonight so we expect that he will receive another blood transfusion today.