Day 10

Today has been a pretty good day for Nicholas. All is well with him as far as his health, but we only have one of four successful breastfeeding sessions. He needs to complete 20 minutes to make it a full feeding session with no additional supplementation. He only did 10 mins or less on three of them. My concern is that I think my milk production has decreased so I need to figure out what I might be doing wrong. This might be making him work too hard and he tuckers out before he is done. This doesn’t hurt him much right now because he has the ability to get a supplement, but when we get home we won’t have that luxury unless we go to formula. Dave and Madi got to spend most of the day here today. This was really nice because Dave heads back to work on Wed which means there will be few and far between visits by either one of them. I’m missing be at home with my husband and my little girl, but I wouldn’t be able to function much knowing my little guy is back here and he needs me. This won’t last forever. Soon we will all be home together. Please pray for successful feedings for Nicholas. He also is being given additional calories in his feedings between the breastfeeding sessions. This is another step towards him getting home to see if he can tolerate these feedings and hopefully these feedings will help him to start gaining some weight.