Kouhen has latched on a couple of times for about 10 minutes each time. He is sucking just fine. In order to get his sugars up within the first hour of his birth they gave him 1/2 ounce of formula and he took it down like a little trooper! They didn't want to give him more since daughter was going to breastfeed. So they put an IV in to give him sugar water and it brought his numbers up nicely. They plan on weaning him off the IV tomorrow morning and I doubt he would need an ng tube (thank goodness) The doc did say that very often babes can have low sugar from a diabetic mom. Other than that, he is just plain perfect..... He's pooping and peeing and stretching and dreaming and crying....what more could one ask for eh? LOL


g. s.