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00:00 If we don't do anything for him now, he won't get out of it.
00:03 Last month, our family of otaries welcomed two new babies, which is super exciting.
00:18 I love sea lion pups. How could you not?
00:21 There are so many cute babies in the other animals.
00:23 There are so many different number of babies.
00:25 I don't know what you guys think,
00:27 but I think we can put them in the top 5 cutest babies.
00:31 The older one is doing well.
00:35 He's growing normally.
00:37 His mom is being super attentive and caring for him.
00:39 We don't worry about him.
00:41 The little boy is worried for the second baby.
00:44 His mom just needs to be nursing while she's protecting him.
00:48 However, he's not growing the way they would want him to.
00:51 It's all hands on deck.
00:53 The little baby boy sea lion hasn't been getting the weight that we would expect.
00:58 So the next step is I'll get a lot of his blood and we'll go back to the lab for an exam.
01:02 He's 100 grams.
01:05 So it's not a lot.
01:07 The team weight the baby, and he's literally he's only gained 100 grams over the last five days.
01:12 At this stage, they should be gaining 80 to 100 grams per day.
01:17 So he is way off on the right.
01:19 And we're finding that he's exactly looking at it.
01:21 We're awaiting for the mom to separate it from the baby so that we can go in and get the pump.
01:26 And when Pablo's there, he literally is the cutest little baby I've ever seen.
01:31 Doesn't help that he's so small and so adorable.
01:34 He's just so cute.
01:36 He has two beautiful big eyes.
01:39 He's doing great.
01:41 So the beauty of having to look at glucose in the blood is that it gives you an immediate result.
01:45 So we can get a little bit of blood.
01:47 So we'll put it in the glucose and then we'll get a restriction to do the measurement
01:51 of whether the baby has enough sugar in the blood and if he's ingesting enough baby milk.
01:56 Well, look, it's still a 97.
01:59 Okay, that's great.
02:00 The mom's producing the baby milk in 3Ls, giving him a little bit of milk.
02:04 That's a little bad.
02:06 Get it up close to the baby is really useful, but it's still really difficult to define the source of the nutrition.
02:10 We still need all the knowledge that the lab is going to give us to get an idea of what's going on with this baby.
02:14 And to know why he's not eating as much milk as we expect him to.
02:19 We're getting a bottle ready to try and get baby in the bottle.
02:24 Ideally, if we can get him in the bottle, we can feed him and he can stay with mom and her
02:30 and have a little bit of a bond with her.
02:32 We've got to get him to grow up at all costs.
02:34 Hi, little bugger.
02:36 What is it?
02:39 Do you want to see that?
02:41 No.
02:42 Do you want to see it?
02:44 Maybe I'm going to get a little milk.
02:46 Pablo, is it possible doing that with him?
02:50 Just putting a little bit on his finger.
02:52 It's going to taste a lot different to him, up to his mouth.
02:56 No, he's not.
03:04 He doesn't like that at all.
03:05 He's asking himself, what is it?
03:07 We give it about 15 minutes.
03:09 But even Susie says it's going to take a lot longer to get a baby in the bottle.
03:13 We need to make the decision to feed him differently.
03:15 We're going to switch to a different method and try to feed him by probe.
03:18 So we get that done in the first step and then make the decision for a plan moving forward.
03:22 I know, I know.
03:24 It's working and I'm not getting it and I'm sorry.
03:27 You're doing great, baby.
03:30 You're doing great.
03:32 The two feeders worked really well.
03:34 It was a great job.
03:35 We're straightening, we're able to get him down and get him in the bottle.
03:38 He's going to be able to swallow it and feed it.
03:40 He's tolerated everything.
03:41 You did it.
03:42 Bravo.
03:43 At this point in time, we need to regroup to discuss the rest of the treatment.
03:50 But my explanation is that we're going to have to feed him again by probe for a couple of months,
03:54 to get him healthy, longer, the more he's growing.
03:57 It's going to be okay.
03:59 Yeah.
04:00 He's got a good team behind him.
04:02 We've got a good team behind him.
04:03 We'll try our best.
04:04 Thank you, Katie.
04:05 You're welcome.
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