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It's a girl!
We didn't know the gender, but right from the beginning had thought we
were having a boy, so it was a big surprise when out came a little girl! Grace Elizabeth, 7lb4oz, 18.5in long, 13.75in head circumference The c-section seemed to go really well and healing seems to be going well too. I really appreciated having a friend there as well as my husband as she was able to be right there for me whilst DH went with Grace to the other side of the room - it can't have been that far away, but lieing flat on your back and with multiple things going on I couldn't follow things. She wasn't interested in breastfeeding at all, but we were reassured this was normal and there was no need to worry, though we did eventually decide to give her some colostrum I'd pumped before the birth and I got started with the pump. The next morning the nurse noticed she was jittery and tested her blood sugar, which was low, so we gave her a large feed of colostrum, waited half an hour, only to find it was even lower! Which meant she was whisked off to NICU and hooked up to an IV. DH had been finger feeding her with the colostrum and he continued to do that and I continued to pump, the first day I was barely ahead of her and was worried that as she increased the volume and they weaned her off the IV that I wouldn't be able to keep up, but miraculously my milk started to come in before the 48hour mark and I was able to pump way beyond her needs! DH was spending an hour each time feeding her and really trying to get the volume into her, we met with the NICU team this morning and they reluctantly discharged her, she wasn't meeting her target feed volumes, but her blood sugar was stable and her weight loss wasn't near 10%. Thankfully they all agreed with my belief that we'd get on better establishing breastfeeding at home, as it turned out our final attempt at the hospital was sucessful and feeding has been going well since then. I'm so glad that we're experienced parents, I don't think with our first it would have occurred to us to say no artificial nipples, even though we'd have expressed a desire to avoid formula, as it is, she got treatment she needed and we seem to be getting on well with breastfeeding. Anne |
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