My boyfriend and I had our baby girl on 6/25/2013 at 9:22 am. She wasn't due until 7/25/2013 so she was a month early. She weighed 5 lbs. exactly and is a healthy baby girl. She's a preemie so she needed help breathing through a tube and had to take antibiotics for 7 days. She's still at the hospital and making a lot of progress. She only needs to maintain her weight and be able to nipple feed at all of her feedings with out using her feeding tube. She does good most of the time with taking her food in herself but shes still having a little bit of a time eating all of it and sometimes she won't eat much at all. Has anyone ever had their baby premature that had any adivce?How long did your baby stay in the NICU? And did he or she have the same problems with learning how to feed on their own??
We had the same issues with our DD. she was 10 weeks early and was off of all breathing apparatus about 3.5 weeks after she was born, but getting her to feed took forever. She couldn't even try until 35 weeks gestational age and it took her until nearly 39 weeks to get it. Se came home about a week and 2 days before her EDD, which is common for preemies, many come home close to their due dates. She ended up in the NICU for nine weeks even.
Dont worry, your baby girl will get it, once they fully get the suck swallow breathe reflex down, it just clicks! Good luck, I hope you can get off the NICU roller coaster soon!
Lurking from June 2013. I had my twins 7 1/2 weeks early. My daughter was in the nicu for 25 days and my son for 35 days. Eating was by far the longest part. Ours had to eat 75 of their bottles by mouth for 2 days. Then they had to eat on demand for 2 days while still gaining weight. The nicu is a hard place to be and I hope you get to take your baby home soon!
Re: When can we take our baby home??
Hope all goes well for you and LO.
We had the same issues with our DD. she was 10 weeks early and was off of all breathing apparatus about 3.5 weeks after she was born, but getting her to feed took forever. She couldn't even try until 35 weeks gestational age and it took her until nearly 39 weeks to get it. Se came home about a week and 2 days before her EDD, which is common for preemies, many come home close to their due dates. She ended up in the NICU for nine weeks even.
Dont worry, your baby girl will get it, once they fully get the suck swallow breathe reflex down, it just clicks! Good luck, I hope you can get off the NICU roller coaster soon!