hi youngmum! 110gms is fantastic news, yay for Liam! I know what you mean about the conflicting advise you hear when waiting to leave the hospital and take him home...everyone says something different and it's heartbreaking when someone says longer. You learn to take each day as it comes which is sounds like you are doing too.
Ask at your local hospital how much he needs to weigh before they can take him and also I know that the premmies at JHH needed to be 1500gms before they would transfer so finding out these things might give you some idea of your own when you will be able to go home.
In the meantime I hope you can get into the accommodation keep trying to get in. It will make it so much easier for you to be there for Liam and Erika.
About your milk, you may need to be expressing every 3 hours to keep up a good supply. A total of 100 minutes is what I was advised to do for my DS when he was in NICU at John Hunter. Lucas was born 4 weeks early. He had gastroschisis and I was going to be induced at 37 weeks anyway, but he decided to come a even earlier, and was born via emergency c-s at 36+2. (You can read his birth story here The Birth Of Lucas Jay Lucas needed to have an operation immediatley after birth so I knew beforehand that I would be expressing but nothing prepared me for what it would be like.
It feels like its time to start over again when you have only just finished. I used to do it 5X 20 minutes - 10 minutes a side - to manage it, and to get some sleep overnight. So try and get 100 minutes in if you can, or Barb in the breastfeeding thread would be able to give you some good advice.
August x
Last edited by August; September 12th, 2007 at 03:55 AM.
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I know what you mean about the conflicting advise you hear when waiting to leave the hospital and take him home...everyone says something different and it's heartbreaking when someone says longer. You learn to take each day as it comes which is sounds like you are doing too.
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