This post covers Thursday morning through Friday morning. Baby Jude's feedings continued to go really well throughout his early morning feedings on Thursday morning. He was drinking all of his 10 cc in about 1 minute now. He remained under the phototherapy throughout this time. His bilirubin levels were 14.8 which was an increase from 12 the day before so they started having put Jude right back under the lights as soon as he finished feeding. That was fine for us because the sooner he gets better, the sooner he can come home.
The highlight of my day was when Jude's nurse, Deborah, called me in the room and told me not to pump any breastmilk because I was going to get to put him on the breast!! I was so excited. When we went down for his 9:30 a.m. feeding, I was able to breastfeed my baby for the first time. It was amazing! He latched on right away and took to it like a pro. He has been solely breastfeeding now for the past 9 hours and they bumped his fluids down from 12 to 8 which is awesome. After this past feeding at 3:30 p.m., they decided to pump him down to 4 which is great!! I asked the nurse out of curiousity what made them decide to let me breastfeed since I had been told by every other nurse that I couldn't until he was eating atleast 30 cc of formula and she said that Dr. Davenport (the OB that delivered Jude) came down and told them to let me start breastfeeding and she was comfortable with it. She also said that despite the fact that I was asking every nurse if I could breastfeed, she didn't get that in the report given to her that morning and therefore she wasn't even aware of me being so eager to start. So, we were blessed to get a doctor like Dr. Davenport that would take the time to go check on our child when he certainly didn't have to and to have a nurse that respected our wishes enough to let us breastfeed our child. Perserverance is the key. ;)
Breastfeeding continued to go well throughout the day and night. He has started to get a pattern of when he eats so when I come down, he is wide awake and ready. ;) Let me just say that breastfeeding is way less painful than pumping.
The nurse, Deborah, said that if his bilirubin levels begin to decrease and he continues to eat well, they anticipate that he will be able to get out from under the lights and possibly be moved to the intermediate ICU so that we have more privacy. So, as of last night, his levels were 12 and they had been 14.8 so they are decreasing. They are waiting to get one more lab this morning before they make a decision. They reduced his IV fluids from 8 to 4 which is great. Also, if his feedings continue to go well, the will take him off of the IV completely.
So, as you can see, today is going awesome. I cannot even describe to you the feeling of being able to breastfeed my baby. It is something that I took for granted before and now I realize what a privilege it is.
The highlight of my day was when Jude's nurse, Deborah, called me in the room and told me not to pump any breastmilk because I was going to get to put him on the breast!! I was so excited. When we went down for his 9:30 a.m. feeding, I was able to breastfeed my baby for the first time. It was amazing! He latched on right away and took to it like a pro. He has been solely breastfeeding now for the past 9 hours and they bumped his fluids down from 12 to 8 which is awesome. After this past feeding at 3:30 p.m., they decided to pump him down to 4 which is great!! I asked the nurse out of curiousity what made them decide to let me breastfeed since I had been told by every other nurse that I couldn't until he was eating atleast 30 cc of formula and she said that Dr. Davenport (the OB that delivered Jude) came down and told them to let me start breastfeeding and she was comfortable with it. She also said that despite the fact that I was asking every nurse if I could breastfeed, she didn't get that in the report given to her that morning and therefore she wasn't even aware of me being so eager to start. So, we were blessed to get a doctor like Dr. Davenport that would take the time to go check on our child when he certainly didn't have to and to have a nurse that respected our wishes enough to let us breastfeed our child. Perserverance is the key. ;)
Breastfeeding continued to go well throughout the day and night. He has started to get a pattern of when he eats so when I come down, he is wide awake and ready. ;) Let me just say that breastfeeding is way less painful than pumping.
The nurse, Deborah, said that if his bilirubin levels begin to decrease and he continues to eat well, they anticipate that he will be able to get out from under the lights and possibly be moved to the intermediate ICU so that we have more privacy. So, as of last night, his levels were 12 and they had been 14.8 so they are decreasing. They are waiting to get one more lab this morning before they make a decision. They reduced his IV fluids from 8 to 4 which is great. Also, if his feedings continue to go well, the will take him off of the IV completely.
So, as you can see, today is going awesome. I cannot even describe to you the feeling of being able to breastfeed my baby. It is something that I took for granted before and now I realize what a privilege it is.
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