DS4 is now 38+1 corrected, 3 weeks on Monday actual age. He has a cleft lip and palate and low muscle tone. Just trying to get the feeding sorted then we can go home .
He is on demand feeding now but he is being fed every 4 hours if he doesn't wake up and cry for it. I have been getting him to take 30mls usually before he falls asleep. Then I take his babygrow off, tickle his feet and try again but he stays asleep. Then the nurse takes over, sits him up and feeds him a lot more forcefully than I would while he coughs and splutters a bit but he does drink the rest (he's on 80ml feeds at the moment.
Do I have to do it like that . Seems really mean to me but my others were all full term and breastfed so this is all new to me. He was being topped up by ng tube when he fell asleep up until a few days ago which seemed a much kinder option but the nurses are all saying that full bottlefeeding is what we need to aim for and that he's doing really well.
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elliejjtiny · 22/06/2013 12:22
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