"She slept all night. She peed and pooped and I changed her diaper. She went back to sleep. That's about the extent of it." I love it when I keep getting reports like that from the nurses at night. She also said that she hopes Aubrey keeps up this sleeping pattern for us when she gets home--awake during the day, sleeping all night. I sort of doubt it though, because she gets fed now whether she's awake or asleep because of the feeding tube. If her fussy "I'm hungry!!" whines when it's time for a feeding to start are any indication, she's going to wake up a couple of times a night for groceries. And that's ok.
-Keli
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| a nice post-bottle nap on mama |
Her bottle-feeding orders got changed today--she's now allowed to take as much as she wants (up to her full amount of feeding, which is 53ml) from a bottle within a 15 minute time limit. I fed her at noon and, after a little bit of a rocky start, she took about 45ml. They cross-cut the nipple because the formula is so thick, but I think it was cut too big this time--milk would sort of gush out and surprise her when she sucked hard. We had some seepage, but she got the hang of it ok. The rest of the feeding went through her tube, and she burped a couple of times and went to sleep. That bottle feeding is hard work!
-Keli
Little miss had a very good day. They are still only doing the bottle feeding twice a day, they just adjusted it to what I wrote earlier (as much as she wants in 15 minutes). Adam got to see her a few minutes before he left for work, and then I just held her for about 2 hours. It's so nice just to sit with her and talk and get to know her and get her to sleep and change her diaper and do all those normal baby/mama things that we weren't able to do for so long.
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| telling daddy goodnight before he goes to work |
-Keli
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