re the blood sugar levels.. DD was put on a drip to fix her blood sugars while we waited for my milk.. no formula She was on it a few days. They were still threatening formula, but when i asked if the drip was maintaining her levels and they said yes, then I just said, well she can stay on the drip until I have enough EBM!

Not sure how/when the drip can be administered, but it's obviously an option.

We were allowed all sucks to start with coz DD was so good at it, but she lost a STACK of weight with the effort (down from 3.5kg to 3kg), so it had to be cut back to 1 suck feed to 2 tube feeds. Again, I didn't let the staff bottle feed her, only tube feed her, while I went and sat at the dairy again and again. LOL. Gosh I knew that pump so well.

I ended up with SOOOOOO much EBM it was ridiculous. But the freezer broke and it all thawed, not long before we were due to go home. So a lot of it got dumped Wish we could have handed it round to all the little prems that weren't getting any breastmilk