Preemie baby - More days in hospital

As you can see from the pictures, preemies have a rough start in life! As the days go on and you feel like you will never get to have your baby at home...the day finally comes. 96 days later for us, and 4.5 pounds later I was bringing home Cameron. We had gone through so much in those 96 days, but not has much as others. Cameron did end up on a ventilator for breathing about a month-n-half into his stay for about 3 days. Most preemies are on a ventilator the whole time they are in the hosptial. Oxygen is always flowing in the incubator so that they don't have to exert so much energy. In this picture you see my hands with a bottle which really looks like a vial, attached to a long tiny tube, this was Cameron's feeding tube that was inserted down his throat so again he would not exert to much energy. He had this for 2 months. By the time he came home he was drinking 1-2 of these bottle every 3 hours. He was health when he came home, but there were long term effects that we were unaware of until he was six months old......