Saturday morning we got up and headed to the hospital at the usual time. We had made plans Friday to start nursing Saturday, so I was pretty excited! The first three times BrynLee nursed she threw up.. I was immediately disappointed! Not in her, but in our situation! I had prayed and prayed the whole entire time I was pregnant that we wouldn't get another baby with reflux.. Instead we got Bladder Exstrophy.. LOL.. My first thoughts were, "Great, reflux on top of what we're already dealing with, just what we need!"
The nurse decided to talk to the doctor and see what he thought we should do.. At one point they suggested that we try a bottle.. (Up until this point I had insisted on no bottle! I still blame the bottle for Koby never wanting to nurse.. You can have your opinion, everyone does, but that's mine!) So we tried a bottle and she HATED it! I was so happy!
We all talked again and decided she was just getting way too much milk too fast.. When I pump I can get 5oz in the first 4-5 minutes of pumping, so even if she was only nursing for 4-5 minutes she was probably getting about 2-2 1/2oz.. She was eating fast and gulping, swallowing alot of air! So we just kept working at it and as she got it figured out we started doing alot better!
We were at the hospital almost ALL day Saturday! It's amazing how much time it takes when you are nursing! Plus we have so much stuff to do with her before and after we nurse it takes even longer! We have to change her diaper, which as soon as she has a clean one she usually poops again! So make that 2 diaper changes! We have to change the gauze that's over her wound, taker her temperature, empty and measure the urine in the bags, make sure all her cords and wires are where they need to be and finally we can get her out of bed to nurse!
She is such a good, content, happy baby! Most of the time she nurses, I burp her, lay her down and she goes right back to sleep! She'll sleep anywhere from 3-4 hours at a time and we do it all over again! The most she's slept was 6 hours! I'm hoping she does that at home! :)
When we did finally get out of the hospital we went to Nelson's Frozen Custard and got a concrete on the advise of one of the nurses in the room! It really was amazing! We stopped at Shopko again and grabbed a few things we needed and before we could even get out of there the nurse was calling us saying it was time to eat again! So then the race was on!
The last 2 feeds of the day she never threw up, so that was definately progress! As long as she's keeping it down and gaining weight, that puts us one step closer to home! Oh home.. How I miss you!
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