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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I delivered my first, slightly prematurely, at midnight in 2020 after a 3-day induction. After we were rolled into recovery, I was given complicated instructions for feeding the baby and pumping at, like, 15/30 minute intervals. They said if his blood sugar didn’t improve in three hours, he would go to the NICU. We deliriously did as told and he avoided the NICU. The feeding expectations didn’t get better over the next two days and part of me feels like I should have just told them to take him to the NICU from the get-go, being a premie with low blood sugar, so I could actually rest and recover overnight. Instead, I went home after a week in the hospital with limited sleep to care for a newborn with only a likewise exhausted husband for support.

This baby friendly thing is not necessarily new, though. When my mother delivered her third baby in 1992 (with two little kids back at home), she told the nurses to take my new sibling to the nursery so she could sleep through the night. The nurses were horrified that she didn’t want her baby in the recovery room and let her know it, but as a third time mom who knew the drill, she dngaf.[/quote]

Or just bottle feed.  Bottle feeding as a supplement isn't going to hurt the baby. [/quote]

We were bottle feeding because he was too little to properly latch. He still needed to be fed every 30 minutes. They wanted me to pump to establish milk for when he was a little bigger and to get the colostrum. He could have gone to the nicu and been bottle fed there that first night. I needed a chance to recover.[/quote]

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