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the eric update - day 62: a second gregorian birthday bath, bottle and balloon.



odin celebrated his second gregorian birthday today! even though you'll likely be reading this a day after the fact, you can feel free to hum him a few bars of the birthday song, since tommorrow will be his nine week birthday. we like to find any ol' reason to celebrate. we weighed in at 3 pounds 9.7 ounces or about 1636 grams. it's fun to look back at his first gregorian birthday and see that he's gained almost exactly a pound and a half. eric got cleaned-up with a a birthday bath. while he's tolerated his other baths quite well, for whatever reason, he decided that he was not impressed at all with this one and he squirmed and kicked and generally gave kris and nurse jan a run for their money. but rather than posting a dozen pictures of him kicking and grimacing, i'll commemorate the event with the one picture of him looking relatively calm.

you might notice in the bath pictures that he doesn't even have his nasal cannula in his nose! the plastic tube is gently blowing oxygen in his face to help him breath, but i don't think he really needed to it, since it was often pointed away from his face at odd angles. nurse jan commented at one point that perhaps he didn't need to be on supplemental oxygen at all, so maybe sooner rather than later he'll be rid of the nasal cannula completely.

eric proved that taking the bottle yesterday wasn't a fluke; after the bath he finished off his second bottle in short order.

he drank the first 16 cc's quite quickly ( i.e. in under 10 minutes ). he then drank about 4 more cc's over 10 minutes before deciding that he didn't want the last couple of cc's as he was getting very, very sleepy.

after the bath and the feeding, eric barely has any energy left to celebrate and he falls fast asleep on kris' chest while clutching his balloon.



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