Carter is doing well today. He had his bottle feeding at noon and did well. He drank 15 mL of milk and then took the rest in his feeding tube. During rounds they have decided to stop his Lasix and then in a couple of days stop his caffeine to see how he does. Carter is getting some 2 month old shots today, Hepatitis B, pneumococcal and the Hib vaccine (Haemophilus influenzae type B). The pneumococcal helps to prevent pneumonia and the Hib helps to prevent infections that are caused by that bacteria such as meningitis and epiglottitis. Poor little man, luckily he will not remember them. They do put a little numbing cream on his leg to help though. He currently weighs 4 pounds 14 ounces so he is gaining nicely. He is also still doing well with his occupational therapy and will have speech therapy tomorrow, which he is looking forward to.
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