We were always told to aim for the due date for discharge, but that's only a guide it solely depends on how bub is doing. My 30 weeker was in for 6 weeks, we pushed for discharge. He was suck feeding for 48 hours and off monitors for 48 hours. He was only 2kg when we bought him home. My 34 weeker was only in NICU/SCN for 7 days before transferring back to the local hospital for a further 2 days then early discharge program where I had to take him back everyday until they were happy with him. However DS2 was 3kg at birth so he'd already met the weight requirement for our hospital. When DS1 (2007) was in KEMH we only had to reach 2kg for discharge to happen, they also had to be on all sucks feeds and off monitors for 48 hours and also maintaining temperature. With DS2 (2009) it was the same, the only thing holding us back was jaundice.

Ashlee, congrats hun x I agree with the others he's only a week old, he's putting his energy in to breathing etc. It will take a bit of time hun.