Day: 6
Weight: 11.54kg
Tayden has had a loss of just over 140gm since yesterday but this is to be expected as he learns to eat and drink independently and was dropped to just one feed last night. Rob and l are not bothered about this loss at all, he woke up smiling this morning although l must admit that the screaming in the night for no reason and the tossing and turning is beginning to freak me out a bit...
We are hoping that the nightmares will stop soon once he starts getting used to things.
Today - or rather tonight - we are making history for him by giving him his last ever tube feed tonight. From tomorrrow we are going solo, no tubes, no peg feeds at all..just Tayden and his little bottles.
We are having some difficulty in getting him to actually drink out of a bottle. We are experimenting with different teats and bottles but at the moment he is still only chewing the teat. This is apparently quite normal, and we just need to keep offering him different teats and bottles and cups until he decides which one he wants. At the moment he is seeming to favour the Nova bottle and teat along with his little PEP drinking cup.
I have been told to keep the little PEP mug strictly for water, so that he knows this is 'safe' and if he has issues with any other liquid or bottle, he can come back to this one and know it safe for him and he can drink from it quite easily. He has outright rejected a NUK feeding cup and favours the small newborn bottle (110-150ml about) that he can hold in his hands easily. He is very unsure of the NUK teat on a normal bottle as well and I think we will revert to NOVA baby bottles throughout, we will see how today goes. Once he decides which bottle he likes, we will then need to get 3-4 of them, each holding a different liquid for him, from his pediasure, tea, juice to some fizzy type of drink too. I think we will be wasting our time with a fizzy cooldrinks as he doesnt like them, as well as other sweet drinks since he doesn't like sweet things so we might settle for an iced tea option - but once again this isnt up to us but rather the man of the moment!
I asked the question yesterday which apparently all parents ask...the dreaded HOW MUCH DOES HE NEED TO DRINK? Prof Dunitz laughed when l asked her and she said she was wondering how long it would take me to get to this. (good to know that l am keeping up with the Joneses!!! Apparently all the parents whose kids are doing well always like to check that they are doing okay and within safe drinking amounts. Makes perfect sense to me...
Shu, we all got a big time moan from one of the nurses on the floor, not only us but the other parents on the program as well...we were apparently bathing them in a bathroom that we are not allowed to since we can get germs...Sigh....so we got a huge lecture about it. Funnily enough we have been using it for 6 days now but we will be good inpatients and use the baby bath in our room. Manuella, Lioni's mom is sitting here at the moment busy eating her breakfast and says she doesn't know if the nurse is important or THINKS she is important! LOL...gotta laugh at that one!
We are off to the fruit and veg market early this morning as an outing for Tayden and to get out of the hospital - doctor's orders remember?
Tayden has done extremely well already, and it is only 8.01am. He has drunk 50ml of pediasure from his little bottle but l have realised that he likes his milk warm to...so hope you are keeping notes granny!
Here's to another successful day in Graz!
Weight: 11.54kg
Tayden has had a loss of just over 140gm since yesterday but this is to be expected as he learns to eat and drink independently and was dropped to just one feed last night. Rob and l are not bothered about this loss at all, he woke up smiling this morning although l must admit that the screaming in the night for no reason and the tossing and turning is beginning to freak me out a bit...
We are hoping that the nightmares will stop soon once he starts getting used to things.
Today - or rather tonight - we are making history for him by giving him his last ever tube feed tonight. From tomorrrow we are going solo, no tubes, no peg feeds at all..just Tayden and his little bottles.
We are having some difficulty in getting him to actually drink out of a bottle. We are experimenting with different teats and bottles but at the moment he is still only chewing the teat. This is apparently quite normal, and we just need to keep offering him different teats and bottles and cups until he decides which one he wants. At the moment he is seeming to favour the Nova bottle and teat along with his little PEP drinking cup.
I have been told to keep the little PEP mug strictly for water, so that he knows this is 'safe' and if he has issues with any other liquid or bottle, he can come back to this one and know it safe for him and he can drink from it quite easily. He has outright rejected a NUK feeding cup and favours the small newborn bottle (110-150ml about) that he can hold in his hands easily. He is very unsure of the NUK teat on a normal bottle as well and I think we will revert to NOVA baby bottles throughout, we will see how today goes. Once he decides which bottle he likes, we will then need to get 3-4 of them, each holding a different liquid for him, from his pediasure, tea, juice to some fizzy type of drink too. I think we will be wasting our time with a fizzy cooldrinks as he doesnt like them, as well as other sweet drinks since he doesn't like sweet things so we might settle for an iced tea option - but once again this isnt up to us but rather the man of the moment!
I asked the question yesterday which apparently all parents ask...the dreaded HOW MUCH DOES HE NEED TO DRINK? Prof Dunitz laughed when l asked her and she said she was wondering how long it would take me to get to this. (good to know that l am keeping up with the Joneses!!! Apparently all the parents whose kids are doing well always like to check that they are doing okay and within safe drinking amounts. Makes perfect sense to me...
Shu, we all got a big time moan from one of the nurses on the floor, not only us but the other parents on the program as well...we were apparently bathing them in a bathroom that we are not allowed to since we can get germs...Sigh....so we got a huge lecture about it. Funnily enough we have been using it for 6 days now but we will be good inpatients and use the baby bath in our room. Manuella, Lioni's mom is sitting here at the moment busy eating her breakfast and says she doesn't know if the nurse is important or THINKS she is important! LOL...gotta laugh at that one!
We are off to the fruit and veg market early this morning as an outing for Tayden and to get out of the hospital - doctor's orders remember?
Tayden has done extremely well already, and it is only 8.01am. He has drunk 50ml of pediasure from his little bottle but l have realised that he likes his milk warm to...so hope you are keeping notes granny!
Here's to another successful day in Graz!