Joshua and Rachel Stewart: Update on Malakai

Malakai has been off CPAP for almost a week now breathing on his own, He is out a humidity crib and went into a hot cot but because he was maintaining his body temp he is now a in a normal cot, he is tolerating his feeds and is on 13mls breast milk every 2hours and it goes up 1ml every 12hours. The drip he is on because he reached 150mls a day no goes down 0.5ml every 12hours and should be ceased Thursday night. Hopefully he will be transferred to Blacktown Hospital the hospital closer to home he was meant to be born in by Sunday to put on weight.. as he didn't need to be in the intensive care part for his weight it was for the breathing and then because he got put on a TPN drip which special care don't take care of
Today he had his first Suck feed which the nurse said he may not sucks as he doesn't know what he should be doing but to her surprise he sucked for alittle bit then went off to sleep and finished his feed via his tube. So we keep trying as he needs to be on all suck feeds to come home and to be 2kgs roughly
Thank you all for your prayers please keep them coming as he is progressing nicely
Big thanks to the LORD for his watch care over Malakai