Day 69 of Life - UPDATE
Ma stuck around the hospital tonight to give the little one his 9:00 feed orally. The nurse told her that she should breastfeed, so they weighed him and breastfed him for 20 minutes. However, when they weighed him after the feed, he had lost 20 g!!! It turns out that the scale isn't working properly.
The nurse decided to pull his feed back through his NG tube, so that they could determine exactly how much milk he had eaten. It turns out that, after just as much work as he did this afternoon, he had only eaten 1.5 mL of breastmilk!!! So, the nurse gave him a full feed via pump.
However, this does mean that the information posted earlier about his 3:00 feed is likely inaccurate, as they used the same scale this afternoon. This is slightly disappointing, but the little one definitely has the method down! He has absolutely no problems with the mechanism of oral feeds (suck, swallow, breathe), which is often the hardest part for preterm infants to learn.
So, we'll see how tomorrow's feeds go!!!
The nurse decided to pull his feed back through his NG tube, so that they could determine exactly how much milk he had eaten. It turns out that, after just as much work as he did this afternoon, he had only eaten 1.5 mL of breastmilk!!! So, the nurse gave him a full feed via pump.
However, this does mean that the information posted earlier about his 3:00 feed is likely inaccurate, as they used the same scale this afternoon. This is slightly disappointing, but the little one definitely has the method down! He has absolutely no problems with the mechanism of oral feeds (suck, swallow, breathe), which is often the hardest part for preterm infants to learn.
So, we'll see how tomorrow's feeds go!!!
posted by Like duh! @ 10:30 p.m.
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