She is up to 3 lbs 11.6 oz – surpassing her birth weight.
Still eating well – 33 cc every 3 hours
We actually caught the Dr. while at the hospital this morning. He is impressed with her progress. He said that really, all we are waiting for is for her to put on the weight.
She is even improving at being able to keep body heat.
Dr. did give us an interesting fact – The majority of full-term babies do best on breast milk, while (contrary to logic) premies have a tendency to not tolerate breast milk well. In fact, he stated that only about 25% of premies do well on breast milk.
He said that in the cases where there is some problem with tolerance, they will mix 50% breast milk with another product (made from partially broken down milk product?) to ease digestion and provide additional nutrition. Fortunately, he indicated that this was not indicated here, as she is doing a reasonable job of tolerating the breast milk, and is gaining weight.
