August 24th, 2007

Well, bottle feeding is turning out to be a lot tougher than I anticipated. Swallowing is another great wonder you can add to the list that full term babies can do at birth.

This morning we started with nursing. I had to use a nursing shield to help Megan to latch on. She did pretty well and had about 7 good minutes of sucking. She did need a little oxygen help afterwards. The nurse just sits with me with a little tube that is hooked up to oxygen. She can then just put the tube up by Megan's nose to give her a little boost of oxygen.

This evening we went back to do the bottle feed. That has been a tough road. She started off pretty good. We would give her about 4 good sucks before pulling the bottle away and giving her a break. After the 3rd time, she needed some oxygen help and started to turn blue. I sat her up to make sure she wasn't choking. She had a burp and that just made everything worse. The nurse said that the burp probably just gave her a little reflux. Her stats went pretty low and she wasn't breathing very well. It was very scary and makes me very hesitant to try bottle feeding again. The nurse said that we have to start somewhere and she is just learning. It is just so difficult to see her go through that.

She was so tired after that and fell right asleep on my chest. We are really hoping that it goes a little better tomorrow.