I am feeling a little frustrated with the whole feeding thing at the moment. The nurses are pushing for the bottles but as he gulps so much and hasn't got the whole swallowing thing down pat, he constantly braddys, and is then too exhausted to feed. I'm talking after two or three sucks. I feel like since then he hasn't been breastfeeding well either, so I am going to voice my concerns in the morning with the nursing staff. Everything moves so quickly in High Dependency it's making me anxious and I'm feeling very emotional about it all. We need baby steps, as we've gotten so used to, and it's gigantic ones over this side of the hallway.
A visit from the speech pathologist today to observe his breast and bottle feeding, no luck as he started on the bottle, exhausted himself, and then wouldn't breastfeed, so another visit tomorrow. She seems happy with him so far.
Also tomorrow is another eye test, so hopefully that won't mean surgery on Saturday. Poor little man with so many hurdles to jump....hopefully this is the last and we can just work on getting bigger and stronger. Little fella weighed in at 1668 grams today...little chunk.
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