My nephew is doing well. He is gaining weight. The goal is for him to gain at least 30 grams a day. He's been doing more than that. He is now off oxygen, with the exception of when he breastfeds. He still is having trouble with oral feedings so he still has the feeding tube.

Again, thank you for all your prayers.

Thanks again for the update...he sounds like a fighter!!

Thanks Trish. I love to hear good news about the baby. I hope he learns the
feeding ropes soon. Love and hopes for you, Baby, DD and family.

My nephew had to go back on oxygen. They also have him wearing braces on his wrists to see if they can get his hands to straighten out. He wears them for 3 hours a day on each wrist, for a total of 6 hours. This is from today's updated . . . He "remains in the NICU in Salt Lake City. He is gaining and taking about 11% of his food orally…the rest is through his tube. He is currently weighing in at 2160 grams or 4.76lbs. Please continue to pray his weight increases and his family can take him home!"

He never left my special prayer list.
God bless him and help him to grow healthy.

My nephew is gaining weight. As of Friday (I think), he was almost 5 pounds. They did a swallow study on him and found out that he is having trouble swallowing thin liquids. They are now thickening his liquids in hopes that it will help him gain weight. He still has the feeding tube in and they are still doing oral feeds. They are hoping that within the next couple of weeks he will be well enough to go home.

Gosh, Trish, I hope with maturation his swallowing reflex improves...prayers continuing. Thanks for the update...

me too, it's good to hear of his progress.

i hope the little one gets better and better and goes home quickly.

best of luck and prayers for the little guy

As of now, they are waiting until my nephew is 5 1/2 pounds and then he will have surgery to place his feeding tube in his stomach (he's at almost 5 pounds). Then he will have to stay in the hospital for 7 to 10 days before he can go home. He did not tolerate the bananas they used to thicken his "milk" so they stopped his oral feeds for a few days and started them back up. As far as I know, he has been tolerating them so far. I'm hoping that trend will continue for him and he puts the weight on so they can do the surgery and he can go home.

It's hard to believe that he is now a month old already!

Thank you to all for the prayers! I know they are working and I know my niece and her husband really appreciate it.