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Noah has had an absolutely great week! He is now 1340 grams (or 2 pounds 15 ounces). He has been more settled in that his heart rate has slowed to the 160's and he is back on the full dose of caffeine. I really think the little hiccup he had was due to anemia and now that he has had that transfusion everything is back to normal.
He has been nuzzling with Kim to learn how to breastfeed and he has latched on a couple of times and given some good sucks. Sometimes he's not interested, but he isn't meant to know what to do at all until he is at 35 weeks and he is still only 33 weeks and 3 days old. In a couple of weeks that part of the brain will mature and he will be searching for the nipple and sucking and swallowing and breathing all at the same time. The nurses say its just amazing how they just switch from not knowing what to do with a nipple to latching on and doing what nature intended.
He sucks his little dummy perfectly, we haven't tried him with a bottle so if we do have any problems at least we can try a bottle with breast milk. Heaven knows we have about 6 months supply in the freezer. Frozen breast milk is better than formula if it comes to that. But i don't think it will. He'll get there. And I don't think it will be too long at all until he does.
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Aww, look at the little sweetie! He's really chunking up! He'll be sucking away feeding in no time, I bet. Kim's done so brilliantly, getting her supply going so well and stocking that freezer. I'm sure it'll be much nicer when he's taking "from source" though, eh!
ReplyDeleteKeep it up Mama! It is possible. My twins were 9 weeks early and they are both breastfed exclusively now! I am bfeeding one of them as I type this now! It took us 3 months, but well worth it! Now when I give them a bottle they look at me like what the?
ReplyDeleteJust checking in to say I hope all is well with you and that Noah continues to go from strength to strength.
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