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Singing the Milk Blues
Jul. 5th, 2007 05:59 pmThank you so much for all of your overwhelming comments/e-mails/well-wishes. Today I think I read something like 260 e-mails and comments of nice things and excitement about our family. There is no way I will ever respond to all of them, so let me just give the lamest thanks ever and let you know that it means an awful lot to me that our kid is loved by so many awesome people. No, really.
This has been a rollercoaster of a couple of days, mainly due to the fact that my milk hasn't come in. Yesterday our kid stopped wetting diapers, so we made our first trip to the doc. (It's kind of convenient that they're open 365 days/year.) She was borderline on the dehydration and the weight loss, so they sent us home and said they hoped my milk would come in last night. Nope. Back in today and the dehydration was a little worse and she lost more weight. Ugh.
They were very sweet and kind about it, but pretty much made us supplement with formula right there in the office. I cried the entire time, and it didn't help that the first nurse that checked us in made a comment about how the baby was "starving." So I told the doc about it and he's supposed to have a chat with her. Anyway, the OTHER people were incredibly nice and tried to make me feel better by telling me it's probably temporary, that my milk should fully come in really soon, and they were really good about finding a system that worked for us that was as non-disruptive as possible. So they gave us a little catheter attached to a syringe and we squirt some formula into her mouth while she's already nursing. It's a huge PITA but hopefully won't cause any nursing troubles, and hopefully my milk really will come in like they say - though I am skeptical due to PCOS.
Having to supplement with formula was one of the things I was afraid of, and having to do it already on Day Four is worse than I thought. I feel so awful about it... but also feel awful about how my kid cried for two days because she was so hungry.
This stuff is hard.
This has been a rollercoaster of a couple of days, mainly due to the fact that my milk hasn't come in. Yesterday our kid stopped wetting diapers, so we made our first trip to the doc. (It's kind of convenient that they're open 365 days/year.) She was borderline on the dehydration and the weight loss, so they sent us home and said they hoped my milk would come in last night. Nope. Back in today and the dehydration was a little worse and she lost more weight. Ugh.
They were very sweet and kind about it, but pretty much made us supplement with formula right there in the office. I cried the entire time, and it didn't help that the first nurse that checked us in made a comment about how the baby was "starving." So I told the doc about it and he's supposed to have a chat with her. Anyway, the OTHER people were incredibly nice and tried to make me feel better by telling me it's probably temporary, that my milk should fully come in really soon, and they were really good about finding a system that worked for us that was as non-disruptive as possible. So they gave us a little catheter attached to a syringe and we squirt some formula into her mouth while she's already nursing. It's a huge PITA but hopefully won't cause any nursing troubles, and hopefully my milk really will come in like they say - though I am skeptical due to PCOS.
Having to supplement with formula was one of the things I was afraid of, and having to do it already on Day Four is worse than I thought. I feel so awful about it... but also feel awful about how my kid cried for two days because she was so hungry.
This stuff is hard.
