Weight gain, development and another cold (10.22kg)

This morning I excitedly pushed Raphael in his pram to the local doctor surgery to weigh him again. Over the last seven days he has taken an average of well over 500ml by mouth (of mostly Nutrini high energy multi fibre) each day. This is only 50ml per day less than his total intake when we were using the overnight NGT feeds so I was confident that he would have put on quite a bit of weight.

I stripped his clothes off like last time to weigh him but this was not very popular this time. Maybe it had something to do with the weather (it was freezing cold). I carefully weighed him, and the blanket that he was sitting on, and then came up with his total weight being 10.22kg. That is 80g less than last time . I can't explain why he has not put on weight considering how much he has eaten! Because he was so distressed, being naked on the scales, I clothed him and balanced him back on the scales to take this photo of him.

On the up side, while we were at our first aid course at early learning today Raphael "cruised" by himself without anyone's hand to hold onto. He did need some encouragement from his mean dad who kept on taking his toys away from him and putting them out of his reach; forcing him to cruise to the toys.

While he has been sleeping, his breathing has been poor over the last day and a half. He seems to be very congested. At the moment his saturations are only 90% and we are waiting for the home care nurse to arrive tonight to have a look at him and possible raise his CPAP to a higher level.