Day 23

I wanted to share some of the nicknames that Treble has accumulated over the last few weeks. There are the basics- baby, little boy, baby boy, puppy. Then the ones he has gotten from his looks, Stuart Little, Yoda, and one of his latest: Brat Rat, a 6 year old friend of mine dubbed him that because he looks like a rat and cries like a brat. Anyways, everything is going well. He is at 5 3/8 today. Tomorrow he is going to go play with his littermates. This will be the first time he has seen then since he was 4 days old. They are around a pound, we will hopefully have some good pictures.

End of Day 21

Excellent news! This morning he pooped all on his own!! and then a few hours later he did it again! Lets hope that he keeps it up. We are just a few hours away from three weeks old. He is at 5 3/8 oz tonight. He is spending tomorrow with a friend so I can get some stuff done. I will try and get some new pictures for tomorrow night. Better go feed him, he is scratching around in his box.

Mid Day 20

I know, I know. Im a horrible blogger! But Ive been busy and tired and there really hasn't been a whole lot to say. He is still figuring out how to get up on his feet, he tumbles a little less now. We are stilll struggling with making sure he is getting enought out of the bottle, its very hit and miss, one time he gets 4 cc's and the next time you do exactly the same thing and he only gets .5 cc's. And we are still struggling with getting him to poop, he has started to pee on his own and sometimes he looks like he is trying to poop. But he hasn't been able to poop without assistance since he was a week old, I have no idea why. He hasn't made it past 5 1/4 oz. He reached 5 1/4 oz briefly on day 14 and since then he keeps fluctuating from 5 to 5 1/8 to 5 1/4 to 5 3/8. Right now he seems to be holding steady at 5 1/4 but I really want to see that number grow! I think he might be able to hear because today when I walked up to the box and said hey little baby he hopped up and started squirming around. But it could have been one of his other senses, maybe he smelled me, or saw me. So in the picture he is on my hand and the pic is taken from my arm, so thats my wrist you see. He is geting so active that it is hard to get a good picture of him!

2 Weeks Old

Its pretty late and I already fed Trebble for the last time before I go to bed so I will keep the post brief. His other eye is partially open now :) he is still at 5 oz. and we ended up having to give him another enema tonight after 2 1/2 days of him not pooping... But tonight Treble did the cutest thing ever. While I was turning the water on and getting a paper towel ready to wash him off a little he curled up and fell asleep in my hand. He hasn't done that since he was just a couple of days old. (I've gotten a couple hand pics but it was just a lucky snap of the camera, he wasn't fast asleep) It was a pretty awesome feeling to see him sleeping in the palm of my hand completely relaxed. He started to wake up after about ten minutes so I put my other hand out and he settled back down and went back to sleep.  I couldn't pick a picture so I decided to put them both up. I already had gotten the video from a little earlier. He is starting to use his back legs a lot more to walk around. Well, so much for brief! not too long though... goodnight!

Mid/End of Day 14

Just a few more hours until Treble is 2 weeks old! He opened one eye this afternoon! So he looks kid of like he is always winking. The other eye looks like it is very close to opening. He has been doing pretty well on his new bottle, the gas drops seem to have done their job also. The only problem is that the bottle takes a LOT longer, at night I was up for 30-45 minutes each feeding, but he is doing so well I might try every 3 hours tonight. Also, he made it to 5 oz!

Mid day 13

I  know, I've been getting more and more tardy in my posts. Anyways! we are just starting to see a tiny speck of sparkle at the corner of Trebles eyes. AND I think we have discovered the source of his potty problems. Today when It was time for his 1:30 feeding he was really bloated again, so we got out the enema supplies agaiiiiin. But this time he didn't poop very much, but he did pass gas quite a bit and that deflated him! So, either its not consitpation, its gas, or its constipation caused by gas. Either way I think that if we solve the gas problem, we solve the poop problem. I think I know what is causing the gas problem, we are  feeding him with a dropper, so I think he is sucking down quite a bit of air with his formula, causing the gas. The plan is to go and get some gas drops, and to look at the slow flow preemie bottles. If it looks like they are small enough to fit into his mouth we will get one as I have read that they work pretty well. He just cannot seem to get the hang of the puppy bottle that we have.
Isn't he getting cuter??

Belated end of day 11

I fell asleep on the couch before I posted last night, I woke up at 11 and fed Treble and then went to bed. last night and this morning im noticing that his face is looking more like a chihuahua, it has just looked like any newborn puppy. The faint spots on his nose are much darker, but there aren't any new ones... and one half of his mouth is dark black, the other half is still pink. No sign of his eyes opening yet. Any day now! He isn't pooping (again!) So we are back focused on that... on a good note he is up to 4 7/8 oz!