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Feed Times Written on the Wall
My son arrived weeks before his time, small enough to rest along my forearm. At the hospital the nurses fed him in measured amounts, little and often. Before we came home, they wrote the hours down for me and showed me how much each feed should be. I copied the whole list onto a big sheet and pinned it above his cot.
My older sister stays with us and keeps one eye on that sheet all day. When his feed time comes round, one of us lifts him gently, even out of deep sleep. He takes so little at a time that skipping even one feed feels wrong to both of us. Some feeds he finishes. Some he does not, and we mark those on the sheet too.
The sheet settles our house, but his check-ups settle him. A neonatologist watches babies like him closely through these first weeks, checking his breathing, his weight and how much he takes at each feed. The Habiganj listings below are where we found his specialist, and the wider directory of doctors practising in Habiganj covers the rest of the family.
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Feed Times Written on the Wall
Life in Two-Hour Pieces
There is no long stretch of sleep in this house any more. His feeds come round every couple of hours, day and night, and everything else fits between them. My sister takes the early feeds so I can rest. I take the deep night ones, him against my shoulder in the dark.
At follow-up visits the specialist turns the sheet towards herself first. She adds up his day from it, asks about feeds he left unfinished, then examines him and tells us what she watches next.
Nobody at Home Rewrites His Chart
The hospital sent us home with his amounts measured and his medicines written plainly on the discharge papers. Both stay exactly as set. A hard feed time still gets kept. A medicine that seems wrong to us gets raised at the visit instead.
That part is not ours to adjust. Only his doctors change anything on that chart, and only after checking him themselves.
The Signs That End All Watching
Our specialist named the signs that mean we stop watching and move. Struggling to breathe, or breathing that stops for moments, sends us. So does a face or lips turning blue or grey.
One refused feed is a note on the sheet. Every feed refused means hospital. So does a fever while he is under a month old. A shaking body counts too, and so does a baby too limp to wake properly. If the yellow colour spreads across his skin and eyes while he lies too sleepy to feed, we leave that same hour.
The Child Doctor Waiting Further Ahead
One day the wall sheet comes down. He outgrows the newborn weeks and his care passes to a doctor for older children. The child specialist listings for Habiganj wait there for that day, ready when his specialist hands him over.
Questions We Get Asked at Home
His feed sheet has gaps where he left milk unfinished. Should we hide those?
No. She reads the gaps first, because a feed left half taken tells her plenty. Bring the whole sheet, unfinished marks and all.
My sister gives the morning feeds. Must she learn the amounts by heart too?
Whoever lifts him works from the same sheet. One list, one set of amounts, so nothing changes between her hands and mine.
The clock says feed, but he is sleeping sweetly. Does the clock win?
In these first weeks, yes. A baby this small cannot miss feeds while he sleeps on. We lift him gently; he feeds half asleep.
Will she ever change his feed amounts at a visit?
She might, as he grows and takes more. Any change comes from her after an examination, never from our guesswork at home.
My mother-in-law wants to give an extra feed when he cries. What do we tell her?
We show her the sheet and explain his stomach is still tiny. Crying does not always mean hunger at this size.
During a night feed he suddenly goes limp and his face looks grey. Do we finish the feed first?
No. Go to hospital at once. A limp baby who will not wake, or a face turning blue or grey, never waits.
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