Ad lib

A few days ago, Wyatt got the go ahead to be in charge of his feedings. He is to wake up and tell us when he's hungry. Of course, we don't let him go more than 4 hours. But this is a big step. This is a "going home" step.
They both have been working hard on feeding by bottle or nursing. Once they start to eat 75% of everything by mouth, they go ad lib with feedings. Cameron is at 71%.
So close.

Then they have to do 48 hours of ad lib feedings without losing weight. And since they're off oxygen (yay!) and their ROP is regressing (yay!), feeding by mouth is the only thing keeping them in the NICU.

Well, Wyatt has been doing well with feeding ad lib. And while we have been talking about going home and things, I wasn't really prepared for today.

"In the next few days, you need to bring Wyatt's car seat in for the test," the nurse said.

The car seat test is this-
They feed the baby and then put them in the car seat for 90 minutes and monitor for them to desat.
The car seat is done about two days prior to being discharged.

This means Wyatt is going to be coming home soon.

Que minor anxiety attack.

And Cameron isn't far behind.

It is the greatest and scariest gift ever.