June 23 630p

A sleepy boy today, but I think all is well.

Ashton has been very aggressive as he begins each feeding, and as a result of his eagerness to eat quickly is forgetting to breathe. Maybe a lot of babies do this, but he is on monitors so we know everything he does. They don't think it prevents him from staying on track to go home, but it frightens me a bit. Today is the first he has done this so we will see what tomorrow brings. I am thinking that maybe since he eats so much, then waits for five hours between meals that he is too hungry at the beginning of each meal so he eats fast to satisfy the hunger.

His belly is still huge and we have accepted that as normal for about ten days. His nurse the past two days had not seen it before and asked the docs for additional tests to check his abdomen because it was so uniquely large. As a result they are thinking his liver is large (apparently they can feel it with their hands??), but don't know what that might indicate. Today they performed a series of tests, all of which yielded normal results. They may do an ultrasound tomorrow just to be certain nothing odd is happening, additionally they are awaiting results of two other tests that would indicate infection, although he shows no other signs of infection.

So far we are still on track for coming home on Thursday. We shall see what the next 48 hours might bring.

Z
Zack Clark
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