Today marked my baby's 24th day since birth. His doing well now and I believe his weight gain achieved his doctor's recommendation. I fed him breast milk as possible whenever and whatever I can produce. The last time we checked on him, his gaining 2 oz a day which that time he gained 11 oz that doubled his 1 oz recommended gain. From 4.69 lbs his weight on the last check up he was 5.24 lbs. We were thrilled on his progress.
It's not easy to fed a newborn. We would like to have an on schedule feeding but at times you can't really attained that. When we were in NICU he was supposed to fed every 3 hours and our schedule was 1:30am, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 and so forth but it changed when we got home. His still sleeping when the 3 hour hit and it boiled down to 3 1/2 hour. Then at times he wants to be fed at 2 1/2. It's hard to predict his feeding habits and the amount of milk he will drink. On day of discharge, a nurse fed him at 50ml which was over what he was supposed to. He was supposed to have not more than 45ml. When we got home I stuck to 35-40ml and he progressed a week after to 45ml. It did change somehow on a daily basis and now I estimated him to be at 60-80ml per feeding.
My milk production doesn't meet up the 60ml minimum per pump. I can however produce 30 minimum to 60ml provided I do it early morning during the hours of 2:00 am to 6:00 am with a 4 hour sleep at least. I could not have that very much sleep because it depends on the hubby if he can stay up that long and how patient he is. Other times he will try but frustrations sink in and I could since the baby is stressed. I don't talk to the hubby on what I am seeing and feeling on how the baby is reacting to him so that he won't feel bad and I always make him feel his effort is being appreciated. The offer alone is enough that I won't ever try to make him feel bad towards sharing his responsibility to the baby. His a hands on dad but he doesn't really have much patience on how fussy the baby is. I do somehow already learned from my baby's experience to be calm otherwise I can't make him feel at ease when his fussiness stroked in.
His body temperature is doing very good. He can already regulate and his lowest is at 97.6 and highest at 98.8 averaging to 98.1 on a daily basis. I don't take his temperature in most feeding. When I feel his cold or hot then it's the time I do it. When I talked to his doctor the last time, she said not to overly do it because it will stressed us out. So I did what I was told and it calmed me down. I am really happy on what the baby is doing.
So far this is about it, nothing much to tell except that occasionally we tried to bring him to restaurants and when we read something about when the best to take the newborn out it says about 6-8 weeks. Just a precaution for us with him that went through a lot already in the past 2 weeks, I better let him stay at home first and take it from there when his getting much older.
