Day 103 & 104 of Life - September 29th & 30th
Sorry to all of those who checked the blog for yesterday's post...only to find there wasn't one. I stayed with Ma last night and I have to tell you...there have been many times where I have felt like I was sleeping at work, but it is actually really bizarre to sleep there! I got a first hand look at a "day in the life of Ma and Sha" and it doesn't involve too much sleep...at least for Ma!
Feeds for the little one have been going quite well. He still tries for 5 oral feeds a day, which means that he usually has to do 3 oral feeds in a row to make that happen. He is also allowed to have 1 breastfeed a day, since it tires him out more than bottle feeds. He often has a hard time with finishing the 3rd oral feed in a row, which was the case today at noon, so they end up tube feeding him. Although, at noon, he still managed to take approximately 20 mL and he was sound asleep!!! But he's coming along quite nicely and is having no problems (knock on wood) with the other oral feeds. He didn't even take advantage of being able to throw up all over his Auntie...thank goodness for that!!!
Yesterday, Ma breastfed him in the morning and weighed him before and after, in order to figure out how much milk he took. Well, according to the scale, he hadn't taken a complete feed, so the nurse (Money Penny)started to tube feed him the rest...except that he was FULL, so about 2 mL into the tube feed, he threw up EVERYWHERE and still fell asleep full!!! So, from now on, Ma's not going to pay any attention to the scale!
They removed all of his monitors earlier in the week...but today, they removed his oxygen saturation monitor as well. It seemed like it wasn't accurately reading and everytime he moved, which is often, it would start beeping. My night was spent getting up and turning off the alarm while Ma was feeding! So, that monitor is gone and they have also started weaning his oxygen, a little bit at a time.
When Ma weighed him this morning, he was 2864 g (6.314 lb)! Quite the little piggy! So, Ma and I went shopping and got him a few more outfits. They're WAY too big for him...but he can swim in them for now!
Pa is staying at the hospital tonight and is going to take care of the little Turkey, so that Ma can have a bit of a break and get some sleep.
There are lots more pics to be posted and 2 new videos (so far at least), which I will post on Monday...so enjoy the rest of your weekend and stay tuned!
Feeds for the little one have been going quite well. He still tries for 5 oral feeds a day, which means that he usually has to do 3 oral feeds in a row to make that happen. He is also allowed to have 1 breastfeed a day, since it tires him out more than bottle feeds. He often has a hard time with finishing the 3rd oral feed in a row, which was the case today at noon, so they end up tube feeding him. Although, at noon, he still managed to take approximately 20 mL and he was sound asleep!!! But he's coming along quite nicely and is having no problems (knock on wood) with the other oral feeds. He didn't even take advantage of being able to throw up all over his Auntie...thank goodness for that!!!
Yesterday, Ma breastfed him in the morning and weighed him before and after, in order to figure out how much milk he took. Well, according to the scale, he hadn't taken a complete feed, so the nurse (Money Penny)started to tube feed him the rest...except that he was FULL, so about 2 mL into the tube feed, he threw up EVERYWHERE and still fell asleep full!!! So, from now on, Ma's not going to pay any attention to the scale!
They removed all of his monitors earlier in the week...but today, they removed his oxygen saturation monitor as well. It seemed like it wasn't accurately reading and everytime he moved, which is often, it would start beeping. My night was spent getting up and turning off the alarm while Ma was feeding! So, that monitor is gone and they have also started weaning his oxygen, a little bit at a time.
When Ma weighed him this morning, he was 2864 g (6.314 lb)! Quite the little piggy! So, Ma and I went shopping and got him a few more outfits. They're WAY too big for him...but he can swim in them for now!
Pa is staying at the hospital tonight and is going to take care of the little Turkey, so that Ma can have a bit of a break and get some sleep.
There are lots more pics to be posted and 2 new videos (so far at least), which I will post on Monday...so enjoy the rest of your weekend and stay tuned!
posted by Like duh! @ 9:00 p.m.
1 Comments:
At 8:08 a.m.,
Anonymous said…
Ma, the good news is the lack of sleep settles down fairly quickly - you get used to it! I'm very glad to hear that you are in the final stages before you go home.
We will be down your way next weekend and the weekend after - we have two boxes and counting of stuff we can drop off. Some of it should fit Sha, or at least not be miles to big for him.
Tonya (and J and F)
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