Hi all,
So, my baby was born at 29 weeks and spent 11 weeks in the nicu. They had him on a 3 hr easy which was great. However, he had to come home on a feeding tube in his nose. In order to take the feeding tube out and start nursing 100%, we have to work up to him being able to do full feeds orally. His muscles aren’t used to the amount of work necessary to get a full feed. This means I have to feed him on demand, alternating between tube and nursing. Obviously this makes my schedule different every day, depending on how well he does at his breastfeeds.
Also, I have been having the hardest time figuring out his A time. He is technically almost 4 months old, but his adjusted age is 6 weeks. At first he was just so sleepy he would go right back to sleep after 30-60mins. Now it seems like he still needs a shorter awake time in the morning, but later on it has seemed like 1hr 30 mins has worked best. And then he seems to do the “witching hour” thing where he refuses to sleep at all between the hours of like 630-9.
He is my third baby and I have used this forum with all of them. I was so confident I would finally have this sleep thing down, but he has thrown me for a loop.