Tube Weaning: Day 5

Auggie had 350ml of formula and 50ml water overnight.   I had turned his food off at 5 AM and thought for sure that he would be hungry by 8 AM - with every meal I keep thinking this is it, we're going to see a breakthrough...it didn't happen, but he did feed himself some rice cereal with prunes.  At lunch he again fed himself some butternut squash and rice cereal but he did not open his mouth when I tried feeding him -  he tolerated being swiped though.  He sucked on some tangerines.  His fontanelle seemed slightly sunken and he hadn't had a pee diaper in 4 hours so I gave him 30ml of water via tube.  After his nap he seemed much better - he found a rice puff on the floor and ate it!!! This really surprised me. Later when his speech therapist came over he took a couple more rice puffs - coughed a bit but swallowed and was okay.  When he tried a piece of tangerine however, instead of sucking as he had previously done, he took a bite and coughed, gagged and vomited.  After recovering in my arms he sat back down and fed himself some sweet potatoes.  After his bath he was cranky and seemed tired and hungry - took 10ml of rice formula from a bottle - yay, finally some progress....he got very cranky that evening, I started his feed at 6 PM and finally he went to sleep early at 6:30.  We'll have to start getting used to a cranky baby, because he is going to start feeling even more hunger soon.....tomorrow is another day at 50% of his calories.