Lee working with Graysen on oral therapy

Here is a picture of Lee doing Graysen's oral exercises. The goal of the exercises is to stimulate Graysen's mouth so that he will be ready for breast feeding when the time comes. We do the exercises three times per day and an occupational therapist does them with Graysen once per day. I cannot try to breast feed him until all of his feedings are compressed. Feeding is a three hour cycle. He had been being fed continuously, so he was feeding three out of three hours. He is down to feeding two out of three hours. (All food is fed through the nose at this time.) The goal is to compress the feedings so that he is fed thirty minutes out of three hours. He cannot feed by mouth until he reaches that goal.