prem babies
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Topic: prem babies
Posted By: CJsays
Subject: prem babies
Date Posted: 24 February 2011 at 1:24pm
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hey i have a 29week girl, who is now nearly 3weeks corrected age. just wondering how other prem mums get on with switching from ebm in bottle to full breastfeeeding (i fully bf during the day now with bottle topups at nite - still too scard to do a full day bf!!). finding it hard to not analyse the mls she is getting like in the unit!
also how did you find sleep patterns at nite? e is great once she is down, takes alot to get her down tho. i wonder if cuz she is used to brite lites and noise in the NICU for so long? ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: meggls
Date Posted: 24 February 2011 at 6:48pm
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Hey CJ, my DD was born at 28wks. While in hospital she was fed through nasal gastric tube until I was able to fully breastfed, so cant help on switching from bottle sorry! I did worry about not being able to monitor her intake, but our lactation consultant was great and told me as long as nappies were wet at each change and there wasn't any reddish spots in her nappies (for some reason I keep thinkinging its called uric acid, but Im not sure thats the right name.. it sounds something like that), then she's getting enough. I was feeding 3 hourly to start off with.
Luckily for us she started sleeping through the night about 6 weeks after we bought her home, she would have been 2/3 weeks corrected. She did have days/nights mixed up when we bought her home, but when I would get up to feed her in the night I'd just use a small lamp and not talk to her and put her straight back to bed afterwards which seemed to help, it didnt take her long to sort it out. I also found playing soft music quietly (we've got the pink floyed rockabyes cd, which is great!) helped her to get to sleep sometimes, I think you're right about being used to noise and lights while being in hospital, nurses warned us about it before we left. Feel free to pm me if you have any other questions  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Kalimirella
Date Posted: 24 February 2011 at 7:37pm
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Its urates :D just means they are getting dehydrated. ------------- Kiara is 3 and Teagan is 2, now we're expecting our long awaited 3rd! http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Troods
Date Posted: 24 February 2011 at 11:54pm
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Do you use, or have you tried using a nipple shield? DD was born 31 weeks, and as well as the tube feed, she had ebm in bottle and I'd try feeding her with a nipple shield. I kept using the nipple shield when she came home, as well as ebm bottle feeds. I slowly dropped a bottle feed, replaced by bf with nipple shield, until she was fully bf with nipple shield, then gradually removed the nipple shield one feed per day and she got used to, and preferred, to feed without it.
Re: sleeps. At night I left the side table lamp on when I put her down for the night (she slept in our room) and during the day left the curtains open. For all her sleeps we had a little radio with a radio station not quite tuned in i.e. not complete static, crackly voices and noise, with static over the top. Gradually I stopped with the light and noise at night - she was then no prob with the dark and quiet and has been a fantastic sleeper. Day sleeps I stuck with the lit room and radio for a bit longer, but again just gradually removed the radio i.e. made it quieter, further away from her cot and she got used to sleeping without it no prob. Hope that helps. ------------- 
 Missed MC July 2011
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Posted By: CJsays
Date Posted: 25 February 2011 at 10:59pm
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Yeah tried the nipple shield in the neonatal unit, didn't work for us unfortunately.
heard a couple of people say radio static, or quiet music, might be worth a try! Having a nitemare nite tonite, had the bath then nearly got all her feed in 125ml and she did HUGE spew, now got another 60ml in and she was fast asleep... but now awake and again.. and been grizzly all nite ARGH! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: meggls
Date Posted: 01 March 2011 at 8:41pm
urates, thats the one thanks Kali, I knew uric wasn't right!  ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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