6/8 - morning

He had a good night last night, no major issues and still gaining weight. He did have a few bouts of apnea overnight but all grade 0 requiring no intervention.

Ashton was too sleepy to breastfeed at 11:00am, will try again at 2pm and see if he will be more alert. It seems that about once per day he is just too crashed out to want anything to do with eating and the rest of the time he does great.

He is still in the crib dressed and swaddled, doing OK as far as his temperature goes. It seems we are in a holding pattern until the apnea stops, no other changes have been made in his plan of care. They will proceed with letting him eat on his own schedule as soon as he no longer sleeps through any of his feedings for at least 24 hours.

The nurse today was talking about him and said he is definitely in the Advanced Placement class of kids for how well he is doing, especially since he just turned 35 weeks gestation today and is still very young. Most kids his "age" are not able to breastfeed at all and rarely take bottles, so he is ahead of the game and I am sure he will continue to be.

As usual - more news later.....

Amie