Well, Veronica is a growing girl — she put on 6 ounces last week and is rapidly approaching the 9 pound mark. Unfortunately for Mom (and Colin), that has turned her into a nursing machine. This makes it harder for me to keep up with her demand, let alone also pump enough for Colin.
I’m back to trying to pump after nearly every nursing session with Veronica to try to build my supply higher, and quite frankly, that gets exhausting. So far we’re managing, but I’m a little worried about once Colin starts taking breast milk at every feeding (if this happens), rather than every other. I’m stockpiling formula coupons, just in case.
Colin lost a little weight, probably because of the diuretic. I can’t tell if he’s feeling better or not. I guess I’m a little gun shy about thinking he’s doing better since I’ve been wrong so many times recently.
They are trying to wean his oxygen back down — he was at 25% today. Unfortunately he also spent a lot of the morning desatting — which he hasn’t done for a while. I guess his little lungs just aren’t ready to pick up the slack yet. I will say it is rather depressing, though, sitting with him and having the alarms go off repeatedly after thinking we were past this stage.
He continues to do middling-well with the feeding. Yesterday and today he did pretty good nursing — managing about 15 minutes after he finally settled down. But Colin is clearly the most easily distracted baby of our bunch:
“Ooh, what’s that over Mommy’s shoulder? A white tile … neat. I’m going to study it for a while. … Wait, it’s a whole wall of white tiles. Wow! … What’s this thing in my face? Oh yeah, I’m hungry. I should eat. … Ooh, bright lights in the hall …”
You get the picture. It can take a good 10 minutes to get Colin focused on eating, but once he settles in, he has good technique. So patience is the name of the game, which is hard for me sometimes. But since it doesn’t look like he’s going anywhere in the near future, we seem to have plenty of time to work on our eating skills.