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tired and frustrated
My LO is working on taking the bottle, he just started this week and has taken 14cc, 17cc, 27cc out of 30cc of breastmilk. Well, today the nurse had to feed him (as opposed to the speech therapist). The nurse seemed very uninterested in sitting there and being patient with LO and kept saying he was too tired..well, he ended up taking 12cc in 15 minutes, after which the nurse quit trying. And instead of putting 30cc in the bottle she put only 20cc. I feel like she wasn't giving him a chance, like she set him up to fail basically. I was so angry at her. After she finished feeding him, she gave him to me and he was WIDE awake and sucking on his hand! I am so frustrated...I know that if he doesn't take in as much as they want him to, they wont advance his feeds and thats one additional day in the NICU...I just want him to come home... so tired and frustrated 
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Re: tired and frustrated
There was a time when I could have written your post word for word. I actually had a nurse tell me one night that "He took 30 and I didn't feel like trying for the rest so I just put it down his tub. He needs encouragement to drink."
I was livid!
Are you allowed to feed LO? We always found that DS "performed" better for me over MOST of the nurses. And that was the key to getting him home, the nurses were huge advocates for me and those that we LOVED were always the ones who pushed DS to get the job done.
I'm sorry you're so frustrated. Like Jakes said, DS usually eats better for me than anyone else. Also, how often is your LO bottle feeding? My LO that is still in the hospital is at 4 per day. We switched from every other time to following his ques - rooting, sucking, wide awake. That's made a lot of difference for us.
Hang in there!
This made a big difference for us too. We were also allowed to bring bottles from home (not all NICUs allow this) and she seemed to do best with Dr Brown's preemie nipples.
Feeding is SO hard because you are so close to coming home and it seems to take forever. Remember that you are a lot closer than you were last week and definitely stay on the nurses to do their part if you aren't there. They should give your LO the opportunity to finish every bottle!
Our precious girl, born at 27 weeks.