After Josh's troubles last weekend he was placed on plain breastmilk for a few days with no fortifications. This was done to help his digestive tract rest a little bit. Unfortunately, because he is a preemie, he needs extra minerals and fortifications to help him with proper growth due to missing out on these minerals in utero. Wednesday they tried adding back in some formula to his milk and once again had some blood in his stool. They immediately put him back on plain breast milk and he recovered and had several normal stools. Today they are going to try him on a brand new formula to see if he can tolerate that. If not we will have to go back to the drawing board.
Today is also a sad day for Josh as his primary day nurse Teena is retiring. She has taken care of Josh 2-4 times a week since his birth. We will miss her but we want to wish her good luck and we hope she enjoys retirement.
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| Josh loves to pull his arms out of his swaddle |
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