DD2 was born at 35 weeks and she had three courses of steroids, the last less than 48 hours before delivery. We had a short cuddle then she had to go to SCN, she was blowing bublles and pausing her breathing, her Paed was concerned it was going to develop into Hyaline membrane Disease (Respiratory Distress in the Premature Infant), so she went into an Isolette and on O2, and the quick action of her Paed ensured that she didn't end up getting transferred to a NICU hospital. She was weaned off the O2 within by that night (born at 11:35am), but once I had settled into my room after my CS they bought her in in the isolette with the oxygen and monitors, and I was able to take her out and give her cuddles after a few hours, her sats improved dramatcailly when she was getting skin to skin She was quite mucussy for a few days as well because she didn't get the squeezing that comes with a VB.

She stayed in the Isolette for a couple of days to help with maintaining her temperature, and so that she could focus on learning to feed rather than that and maintaining her temps as well. She was able to suck on day 1 with lots of encouragement and begging from me nipple shields would be really useful as well especially if she is a bit small and you want to BF. I also escaped her having an IV, NGT and bottles, due to speaking with her Paed and planning a course of action prior to delivery, and he was fully supportive so she was fully BF'd from the start

Take care hun and I will catch up on everything in other threads now I have written my BS! xxoo