Now where was I?

Max is now 6 weeks old (nearly 7) He has regained all the weight he lost (down to 2lbs 15 oz) and tonight weighed in at 3lbs 12 oz! 2000 grams is the 'magic number'

He is still struggling with 'swinging' which means his oxygen need fluctuate. Sometimes he can fix this himself, other times he can't and they have to adjust it for him.
Since putting him on the high flow nasal cannula they have decreased his liters/minute very slowly and he is down to 4 liters/minute today! They have also increased his parameters from the 88%-94% range to the  92%-98% range. All great news!

We had a bit of a scare last week, where the opthamologist came to check his eyes and they thought he had Stage 4 ROP. Max has many of the risk factors for having ROP and it has been a concern in the back of my mind since I first learned about it (which was when the NICU doctors came to talk to me after my water broke) Turns out, the opthamologist has bad handwritting (ha!) because he actually wrote a 1 and everyone thought it was a 4. On Tuesday when they checked his eyes again, it had corrected itself and it is no longer a concern. His eyes actually look great, though there is still a risk of myopia (nearsightedness) but I am nearsighted so I'm not too worried anymore.

Max has graduated to the 'big boy' binkie, and it is a legit newborn binkie. I'm sure many of you know about the green soothie pacifiers. He actually LOVES it, which makes sense in a Murphy's Law kind of way since S and I were not going to use binkies. :) Of course I've given up on making any sort of plans, because he sure has shown me he has his own agenda. They've told me if he continues to do well with a binkie they may try to bottle feed him as soon as next week, but again...its all up to Max.