Patience, Grasshopper!

BF’ing hasn’t been going great this week.

However, I decided to see if Charlotte would take a bottle today. And she took the Haberman just fine. So at her next feeding I decided to try a regular bottle. She was a bit slow but she did just great. She took three regular bottles today! I am still going to work on the breastfeeding, but in my personal opinion, the more action she gets with her mouth and learning how to work things with the palate, the better. Plus the faster we can get the oral feeds going on a regular basis, the faster we’ll be done with the g-tube. I can always try to BF’d before a bottle just as well as I was trying before a g-tube feeding. Definitely don’t want her getting lazy and thinking that she doesn’t have to work at ALL in order to feel full. She couldn’t have a paci for 3wks post-repair per doctor’s orders and as we are taking this opportunity to wean her off of it, we really don’t have anything to replace it with for oral stimulation during feeds. We were trying the breast but that just wasn’t working. Plus she was doing more comfort nursing than anything and that was leaving me with little to no time to pump. So this way, I pump, give her a bottle, and then we’re done. In a few days I will be pumping, trying to breastfeed, then giving her a bottle. Hopefully things will continue to go well and we’ll be able to BF’d but for right now, I just want to give her a chance to exercise her new mouth!