Trevor is a sleepy baby. We call him sack of potatoes because at this point he would rather sleep than eat. We'd wake him up for feedings only for him to sack out in our laps!! We wondered if that meant he would be up all night, but fortunately he slept a lot at night too. We tried using the bassinet that Jeff and Dawn borrowed us in our room but Trevor didn't really take to it at all. When he was having a bit of a fit and nothing else worked Sara held him in the football position in bed with us and then he slept for almost 4 hours! We realize that is a big no, no, but we all were exhausted and it worked out just fine fortunately.
On Sunday the nurse from the hospital called to check in and we let her know that he wasn't eating much. We told her that he wasn't breastfeeding at all so we were doing 15 ml dropper feedings of formula every few hours. Well, she was extremely concerned because when we were discharged Trevor had lost more than 10% of his body weight (he was at 7 lbs 13 oz) and now she figured he was high 6's or low 7's. So of course this brought Sara to tears that we were already failing as parenting and starving our child. We increased his formula feedings to ounces via bottle as instructed and waited to meet with the at-home nurse on Monday and a lactation consultant on Tuesday.
In those meetings we learned that we weren't failing as parents by any means, we actually were doing quite well! Trevor just was particular in his feedings and latching for breastfeeding would take time. In the meantime, we made the decision to pump and bottle feed the expressed milk if an attempt at breast feeding was not successful. His weight at the lactation consultant on Tuesday was 7 lbs 6 ounces so we needed him to gain weight and he would with this new plan!
Here's a picture we wanted to share. The little pic is of Brian when he was a newborn. Quite a resemblance huh?
You must be the father Brian -- and the mother is out of the picture!
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