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An Update Just a short post to let you know I need to have a break from blogging the story of my hospital stay and Michael’s birth. Now my days are taken up with feeding the baby, expressing breast milk and then feeding him the extra. The reason for the managed breastfeeding is that he is not putting on any weight and gets dehydrated quite quickly, which is why I need to supplement his feeds. He has trouble increasing my milk supply because he is an early baby and still jaundiced. Jaundice makes baby sleepy, so he doesn’t want to wake for a feed and then he doesn’t have enough energy to suck vigorously. If I don’t keep up his fluid intake, he becomes more jaundiced, which causes him to become more sleepy. A vicious cycle. Right now, my routine consists of waking baby for a feed, sometimes I have to use cold face cloths (doesn’t always work), feed from one side, change nappy, feed from the other side, give the baby the expressed milk. I do this by placing my little finger in his mouth, while he is sucking my finger, I place a syringe full of breast milk into the side of his mouth and plunge when he sucks, stopping when he stops. Afterwards, someone takes Michael while I express more milk, store it in the fridge, wash the expressing equipment and sterilise it for ten minutes on the stove ready for the next use. By this stage, the baby is almost ready for another feed. |
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