How many chins can one baby have?

We snuck in to see Max this morning just before 2. He was sleeping soundly and was in a pleasant mood. We were lucky to have made it just before his change-up and feeding.  After we changed him, the nurse stripped him naked and took the prongs out of his nose to quickly weigh him. He came in at 1903g (4lbs3oz).  Once we got him back in his crib and fed him, he quickly fell asleep comfortably.  It's worth noting that, this night, he spent a lot of time being "harassed" by the nurses and his parents and he barely dipped at all, which is phenomenal.  He's a lot more stable than he used to be and he's coming back from any setbacks before any of the machines can even warn us about any problems. He's getting the hang of being a baby quite well and we're excited to see him progress even further. Hopefully, he'll have those prongs out soon so we can start doing more skin-to-skin holding. With them there, it's simply too uncomfortable for him to be held in a way that he enjoys.

We went to visit him him again in the afternoon, at the regular 4:30ish time.  He was still doing well and was sleeping soundly. We changed his diaper, fed him and just hung out for a while while he lay there, being cute. He's eating 36ml at a time now, thanks to his increased weight, so his after-food nap comes very quickly after he eats. He's gotten visibly fatter and he has about 3 more chins than most people. He's kind of all chin, actually, as the rest of his body is still catching up in girth.

Tomorrow, the doctors are going to try and take the prongs out of his nose and give him the "Hollywood-style" cannula for breathing. This will be a step forward (if he can handle it) and will mean that we'll be more readily able to hold him without him fussing all the time. We're excited to see how he does with it, but are also prudently aware that it's sometimes necessary for babies to go back and forth between the cannula and the maddening prongs for the first little bit.  Our irrational hope is that Max will like not having the prongs so much, that his joy at their removal will counteract the difficulty of having to do that much more work on his own..