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There’s been some time since our last post. We’ve missed 36 weeks, 5 weeks old, and now 37 weeks. Changes have been fairly slow, so it just hasn’t seemed worth writing entire posts to keep up. As always, we’ll see how future posts go.
🎶 Just keep climbing, just keep climbing 🎶
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First things first: Aspen is rocking the bottle! She’s taken her entire feed (52 ml) from the bottle from Sam our last two feeds. That’s amazing!
For Elizabeth, she continues to have bloody stools. They just won’t go away. We still haven’t stopped feeding her neocate, but it really needs to stop. However, we have started giving her a bottle with just a little formula in it with a very stiff nipple. We’re mostly working on the motions with her and she didn’t seem to like taking the binkie trainer.
Keepin' it moving
Gap We’ve been working on projects the last few days and there hasn’t been a lot to report on the girls. These are things that may keep us from having a truly daily update schedule on this blog. See Extra Bits below for information on staying up to date.
Elizabeth’s Gut Issues We’ve had some more issues with Elizabeth. A couple of times over the last few days she’s had more blood in her stool.
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Learning How To Feed We’ve started down a path towards getting the girls to feed on their own. This includes Sam getting to work with the OT on some mouth exercises that we can work on. These are used to help develop the muscles and reflexes required for feeding, especially breastfeeding.
Aspen continues to show very strong signs that she wants to breastfeed. While she certainly hasn’t got it down, she will do a little sucking and is probably getting a little milk that way.Time to start real feeds!
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Elizabeth’s Feeding We’re now at 48 hours after Elizabeth’s bloody stool issue1. So far all of her x-rays have been clear so we’re even more confident that she’s got some sensitivity. Today they have started her on the soy-based formula. They’ll move slowly here to make sure that she is tolerating it well.
Magic Age I’ve talked about this before. Thirty-three weeks seems to be a magic age for starting to attempt bottle and breast feeding.
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