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Tiny Meals and Deep Sleep

Our House Runs on Feed Times

Our whole day runs around his feeds. We note the time of each one, how much he managed, and how long the waking took. A refused one stays in my mind until the next try.

Nights are stranger. He stirs, I lift him, unsure whether he wants food or only holding.

His Feeding Plan Stays Exactly as Written

Before we left the hospital, the doctors wrote out his feeding plan hour by hour, and set one medicine to be given at home. We follow that plan exactly as it was written. We do not skip a feed because he looks peaceful. If his medicine or his feeds ever need changing, that decision belongs to the doctors treating him. That decision is not ours to make.

What Would Send Us Straight to Hospital

Some signs will not wait for a booked visit. Breathing that turns difficult, or that stops and starts with pauses, means hospital at once. Lips or a face turning blue or grey mean the same. A fever in a baby younger than a month is a same-day matter.

Shaking and fits are on that list too. So is a baby who goes limp, or one we cannot wake. And if a yellow colour spreads across his body as his sleep deepens, we will not sit at home watching it till morning.

Care That Grows Up With Him

These newborn weeks will pass, slowly and then all at once. After them he will need a doctor for the ordinary troubles of childhood. This directory carries the child specialist listings for Bogura for that later stage of his life. For now, his world is feeds and grams, and a newborn specialist reads that world.

Frequently Asked Questions

He falls asleep in the middle of nearly every feed. Should I raise that?

Raise it first. The specialist watches how a baby feeds, not only how much. A baby who cannot stay awake for his feeds tells him something worth hearing.

How often will the specialist want to weigh him?

At every early visit. One weighing means little. What matters is the line the numbers draw across the weeks, and whether feeding and weight move together.

What should we carry to the first visit?

Bring the hospital papers and the feeding plan, even pages you cannot read. I also note feed times. Small notes save guessing in the chamber.

My mother says small babies catch up by themselves. Does he still need this?

Many small babies do grow steadily, and she may yet be right. But catching up is something to watch happening, not something to assume. The visits are how we would know.

Can my mother come into the chamber with us?

I hope so. She does half the feeding and should hear the advice herself. Ask when you book. Two listeners remember more than one tired mother.

If he cannot be woken one night, do we wait for the appointment?

No. A baby who will not wake, or who breathes with difficulty or pauses, goes to hospital that night. So do blue or grey lips, fever under a month old, shaking, and refusing every feed.