We have a home-visit nurse who comes every week to weigh the baby. She also asks ridiculous questions about the baby’s development in other areas. To ensure that even though Lioness is little, she is not in the “failure to thrive” category. Our first check-up (at 2 months old) went like this: Nurse: Does she …
Just because it wasn’t as bad as it could have been, doesn’t negate the fact the past several months have been really tough in several different ways. There’s been a lot of struggles, hurts, stresses, and disappointments. The biggest challenge for me were the events surrounding Lioness’ birth. We had looked forward to having a …
When Lioness was first born, we learned to use the Habberman Bottle. It has a special valve and extra long nipple, which needs to be squeezed to shoot milk into the baby’s mouth. Because of the cleft palate, the baby doesn’t have a strong enough suction to nurse or even use a normal bottle. Dada was …
With each pre-term labor scare (and I had several), I would be up all night thinking, “I can’t do this. I’m not ready for this.” Feeling thankful when labor stopped by the morning, only to be frustrated that I was still pregnant for another day. By 39 weeks, I began to wonder if she was ever …
People ask how I make so much milk. Honestly I feel like I’m winging it, but here’s what I’ve figured out, based on my personal experience of a loooonnnggg 6 1/2 weeks of making milk. When Lioness was in the NICU, she ate every 3 hours, which equals 8 times a day. So I was …
After a long sleepless night, this morning was filled with the chaos of me getting released from the hospital. Drs checking on me, and lots of paper work. Packing up my room, pumping milk for the baby and trying to visit her. The baby is learning to use the “hammerman” bottle (that’s not really what it’s called). …
