🫶🏼Finding this super challenging
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Great advice :-) bub is already on the bottle and on the boob- 4 sucking feeds per day and we have to build her up to 8.
Hi, it is tough. I hated it. It sounds like your little one is doing really well and probably won't be in too much longer. My LG came home at about 36 weeks so fingers crossed (if she's taking the bottle sometimes, push the nurses to keep it up overnight and wake her if needed to eat, once that feeding tube comes out you're on the home stretch) I was home for about 3 weeks without my LG and it did get easier in parts but I doubt you'll be there long enough to get to that point. Try to focus on some positives - you have a little bit of time to get over the C-section before taking you baby home, that's super helpful, you have time to pump and get your supply up. We also tried to reward ourselves and go out for food/to the cinema. Those things you would have been doing in the lead to up the birth while you could. Also remembers, the nurses are the most over qualified babysitters you will ever get!!!
Hey this is tough, I didn’t live as far away but there are no set visiting hours for babies some days I found myself there from 7am till 2am the following day and they never asked me to leave or told me that wasn’t allowed. Given you live 2 hours away have you spoke to the hospital about that? X
Omg my daughters nickname is Sami 🥰 she was born 6 weeks premature! We also lived 2 hours away and I had a csection. It does not get easier 😂💜 I’m sorry! My husband would drive me up there every morning, go to work, then pick me up at the end of the day. If I missed a day (one time I had to stay with my 15 mo bc our babysitter backed out), and I made him drive me up at night for a one-hour visit! Lol you just need to be with your baby! 🥰🫶🏻 stay strong!!
Some awesome advice there lovelies- thank you so much 🫶🏼
I can relate so much and want to send you all the love and strength right now. It doesn’t get any easier leaving them (even just to go to out for 5 minutes) however as each day passes know that your beautiful baby is in the best place right now. I can’t believe the hospital are making you stay in an air bnb - have you asked for a room? Try to get as much skin to skin as possible, ask all and any question you need - the nurses are your bible right now ask them anything!!! And don’t be scared to take half an hour break for you to just get some air or a coffee, you might feel bad leaving but you also need to see more than just the same 4 walls. Sending so much love x
I didn’t find that it got easier but I found ways to cope as time passed. My LG was born at 33+1 through emergency c-section and spent 3 weeks in NICU. The first 5 days I was inpatient but could only see her when I had the strength due to complications, my husband or one of my nurses would wheel me over anytime day or night. My last day inpatient I was a mess thinking about me leaving and her staying. I cried all day. Fortunately we were able to stay across the street at Ronald McDonald house and I went back and forth for every feeding (even when she was just NG tube feeding), every bum change, every temperature check, every bathtime and cuddled her as much as I could. I got to know the nurses which helped me feel more at ease when I wasn’t there and they just let me do all of her care so I felt more like a mommy. Sometime throughout I started playing a game in my head that I was super rich and had all these personal nanny’s lol weird but helped pass the time and lightened my mood.
I refused with all 3 of my prem babies, the hospital found me a private room in the hospital to stay and I stayed the entirety of the babies stay, to be fair i spent 22hrs out of 24hrs in the NCIU anyway with a comfy arm chair as was breastfeeding them all or pumping and drip feeding.