She seems to be able to do this well enough on her own in the late morning to early afternoon before and after that time she still seems to need help to wake-up.
Her pheno dose is gradually being moved back to her last evening feeding (11pm-12pm) so that we can let her sleep a little longer overnight and not have to struggle with feeding a sleepy baby. We’ll need to wake her at 4-5am for the first morning feeding.
She has a definite ”wake and play” time between late morning and early afternoon. She’s making noises and actually crying in her little way. She’s looking around and will look straight at mom or dad or the nurse during a cuddle and feed and seems to also like staring at the overhead lights. The nurses think she’s ready to try breastfeeding today during her more awake feeding times. It will be great if she and I manage to move to that method of feeding as expression of breast milk via pumping isn’t all that fun and takes quite a bit of time and effort. Perhaps one of these days I’ll find the time to add an “Adventures in Lactation” diary page to give everyone a glimpse of the little absurdities that are involved in “expressing myself”.
So we’re getting there, the only thing holding us up from release is the monitoring of her SP02 readings. Back around 6 days ago when the pheno was still quite high in her system she had a dip in her readings just after dylantin dose which the doctors think could have been attributed to the dylantin but the policy is when this happens with a newborn or small baby they have an observation period of 7 days to insure it doesn’t happen again before releasing from hospital.
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August 11, 2008 @ 10:37 am
She’s so beautiful! Hopefully she’ll be breast feeding soon Jenn. You’re giving her the best by “expressing yourself”. Thinking of you daily.
August 11, 2008 @ 2:05 pm
Sounds like she’s making lots of progress! I can’t wait to hear that you’re heading home with her.
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