5p.m.
I'm late, I know. Today's the first day since we've had Aubrey home that I've felt really discouraged. She just can't seem to get the hang of the bottle, nor does she really have the "want to." She'll take some of it but then clamps her gums together and gets mad if I try to get it back in her mouth. The speech therapist at MCG/GRU told me she was going to come and teach me what to do while we were there. She never came back. When we were discharged they told me speech therapy should call us for an outpatient appointment. Never heard from them, so I called yesterday. "Oh, she's not here today, but she will call you back in the morning." It's way past the morning and I never heard from her. I really thought Aubrey would have gotten it by now, that the whole bottle thing would have clicked for her. I don't know what to do to help her get it, and I'm not getting any help from the hospital.
We talked to the pediatrician today about all of our questions--her bottle feeding, the constipation, the bad gas...we were supposed to go see her Thursday anyway, but she told us to go ahead and come in tomorrow. I'm glad. If there's anything we can learn to help our sweet baby, we need to know it. She's had a tough enough life already and I don't want to make it harder for her.
She's been sleeping a lot today. I'm really hoping she's not getting her days and nights mixed up. She stays awake so long in the evenings (like until 12 or 1 a.m.) because she's so grumpy, but it's nigh on impossible to keep her awake when she's tired.
-Keli
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