I pulled out my feeding tube again.  Medical team said okay, we’ll just leave it and see what happens.  Best decision I ever made.

I think I look my best at 0400, don’t you?  The Admiral does.

Stay Calm.
Cap’n B

I went through a whole night without a feeding tube for the first time.  While this is excellent news, I’m finding that since I’m so underdeveloped that I’m still not efficient enough.  It takes me about an hour to get through a bottle (indirect lactose infusion), and direct lactose infusions take MUCH longer than normal term babies as well.

So while my progress is great, being awake for an hour every two hours is draining both to me and to the Chief Medical Officer and the Admiral.  I need more sleep and energy conservation than most babies still or risk not developing properly.  We can’t all continue at this 1 to 2 pace, as much as we would like to.

So we did another tube this morning.  Every tube resets my home-world return chronometer.

We are all trying our best to get through these difficult missions.  Crew morale is really down right now.  It’s a delicate balance of progressing, but not progressing too quickly.

Stay Calm.
Cap’n B