3am Pump'n Blog

Sorry it has taken so long for another update. New parents are busy-new NICU parents are SO busy!!  For the past two days we have been learning how to care for Josephine in the NICU. We report every three hours for her feeding routine.  We stay for at least an hour.  So we end up with about an hour to an an hour 45 to go back to our room, eat, pack up the room, fill out paperwork(which just keeps appearing), contact family/ friends and I also have to pump for the next feeding.  I am not complaining by any means!  We are eager parents of our little peanut!  This is why I haven't called some people back, or replied to texts, or emails.  

So there isn't much to report now.  She is making progress.  Being fed 14cc at this time. It could be more by the time we get there later this morning.  She is and always has been breathing on her own.  When I post pictures it looking like she has a million cords connected to her because she does have a million cords connected to her!  Most of them are there for monitoring her.  She has an IV in her hand. She also has an orange feeding tube in her nose. We feed her anything I can pump out at this time-which isn't much. The rest is supplemented with formula until my milk comes in.  

Ok my 3:00 am pump is done so I need to sleep. Here are some pictures until later. 

Girl loves a matching outfit!

Skin-to-skin with Daddy