SCN Day 12 - 11 days old - 36w5d
Today the girls came off their apnea monitors so no longer have any machines connected to them. My Pediatrician is on leave this week but the one filling in left instructions that the girls drop their amount of NGT feeds in an attempt to be bottle fed all of their feeds now.
The SCN is extremely busy and has been trying to transfer us to the Private Hospital we were originally booked in to deliver at. My original hospital however is also fully booked. I really don't want the girls continuity of care interrupted (would be the same private Pediatrician looking after them but different Nurses/Midwifes). This hospital doesn't have a SCN so staff would have to be rostered on specifically to look after the girls and administer their NGT's. Thankfully my Pediatrician has left specific instructions that my girls are not to be transferred whilst she is away.
The SCN has been so good to us and I know my girls as exactly where they need to be. They also let the parents be very hands on. We get to do all the cares - temperature taking before every feed, nappy changes, bathing, etc.
I have 5 different lactation consultants riding my back about my low milk supply. Their suggestions are really helpful - instead of expressing every 3 hours 8 times a day, express every 2 hours 12 times a day. Bullshit. I don't know if the cause is the stress of not having take home babies, my diet and water intake suffering as I sit with my girls all day long in the SCN, or my bloody PCOS. I'm so sick of feeling like I have to justify my low milk supply everyday like I am doing something wrong. I've started to push the PCOS, hormonal imbalance, angle on them and have been advised to now seek medication to increase my supply.
I had always assumed that breastfeeding was something that came easily and naturally. I enjoy the feeling of breastfeeding, even though it makes me feel like I am going to fall asleep and sometimes a 1800g baby can get a little lost and slippery in the football hold. It's amazing how you can be so determined to work on something that you forget about the one hundred other people in the room that you are flashing your headlights at.
It's getting harder and harder to leave the girls of a night time. They stare at me wide eyed accusingly as I leave :(
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2 comments:
It sucks to have had these bloody big boobs all our lives and then just when you think they are going to be useful for more than lurid ogling and cleavage they fail.
Don't despair Imogen. It took me over 4 weeks to get anything worthwhile happening. I dont knwo why. I decided to blame the prematurity on it as my milk was much better at around 40 weeks. Motillium and Fenugreek were fantastic, especially the Motillium
Not sure where you've got to with this now as I'm very behind, but motilium is genius in this situation. Plus sadly teh lactation consultants are right about frequency of pumping, very much the more the merrier although of coure you need to balance this with your sanity.
Do hope all is ok and that the girls are thriving
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