This afternoon Connor got taken off the big monitors.  So now he’s just attached to a mobile respiratory monitor.  This means he can be moved to a crib (off the flat bed).

The sister tried everything today to get him to suck his dummy.  He’s refusing the Nuk dummy now.  He also didn’t like the Pigeon one too much (but he was sucking that one a bit better).  His favourite so far is a cheapie preemie dummy that apparently costs R5!  Go figure.  
Not sure I’m happy with that as it’s going to be a problem to get him to suck a orthodontic dummy later, but if this teaches him to suck a bottle and let me take him home, then how can I really complain.
Will get Lance to take me to Baby City tomorrow to get a honey dummy, and another make to try. Will look at them and see which ones look similar to the cheapie the nurse is using. 

He had his second bottle this afternoon too.  The nurse fed him this one too.  She asked me if I had a issue with that, which I didn’t.  I’ll have plenty of time to fight with his bottle feeding. LOL!!  
He again drank 30mls of the bottle, but this time she was much happier with how he sucked.  He was actually sucking to get the milk out, and not just biting the teat and letting the milk run down in throat.  

They are going to try and give him another one tonight.  Hopefully it goes well.  Will read his chart in the morning to see how he did.