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Times Taped to Every Bottle
My son arrived weeks before he was due, and he was small enough to frighten us. Feeding him took the whole family's patience. A nurse taught me to draw my milk into small bottles so that others could feed him too. At home we kept that going. Every bottle gets a strip of tape on its side, and I write the time on the tape.
His father gives most of the feeds from those bottles. When a feed is due, he takes the bottle with the earliest time written on it and settles the baby against his arm. I rest then, or I sit and prepare the next bottles. The tape saves arguments. Nobody has to ask which bottle came first, and nobody has to remember anything at three in the morning.
For follow-ups we take him to a newborn specialist in Natore. He checks our son slowly, asks how much came out of each bottle, and watches the breathing and feeding before deciding anything. Down this page are the Natore neonatologist listings. The general list of doctors in Natore is there when the rest of the family needs a doctor.
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Times Taped to Every Bottle
A Shelf of Bottles, Each With Its Hour
Our kitchen shelf holds the day's bottles in a line, oldest first. The tape on each one carries the hour I filled it. Washing, filling, labelling, then washing again. That is the rhythm of my afternoons now. My mother counts the empty bottles when she visits. Some days the line is short because he drank well. Some days a bottle comes back half full. I write that down too, so his specialist hears the whole truth.
We Do Not Move the Times or the Amounts
The doctors who sent him home fixed his feed times and the amounts, and also started a medicine he still takes. The bottles follow their times. The medicine follows their words. My husband and I never push a feed later because the house is busy. We do not add a little extra because he seems hungry either. Any change belongs to the doctors treating him, and only after they have checked him.
A Different Doctor, Further Down the Road
He will not be a bottle-fed newborn for ever. Month by month he grows into an ordinary baby, and then a child doctor takes over his routine care. We have kept the child specialist listings for Natore ready for that day.
Trouble That Sends Us Out the Door
Some signs empty this house in minutes. Hard breathing means we leave. Pauses in his breathing mean the same. His mouth or face turning dusky blue or grey sends us out too. A feed refused once is noted. Feed after feed refused is a journey to hospital. A fever counts too, while he is younger than a month.
Shaking we cannot settle sends us too. So does a body that has gone limp, impossible to rouse. A yellow colour creeping across his skin while he lies in too deep a sleep is on the same list. None of those wait for morning in this house.
Questions While the Bottles Wash
Why does each bottle carry a piece of tape?
The time on the tape tells us which bottle to use first. It also stops two people preparing the same feed twice in the night.
What happens to a bottle he does not finish?
We write down how much he left. His specialist asks about leftovers, so nothing stays hidden.
Can your husband really manage the night bottles alone?
He can, because the tape does the remembering. He takes them in order and marks what was taken. I sleep, then I take over before dawn.
What do you tell the specialist first when you walk in?
How the bottles went comes first. I tell her the amounts and how he slept between feeds. Then she checks him herself before saying anything.
What if the tape falls off a bottle and the time is lost?
It happened once. We set that bottle aside rather than guess. Guessing with a baby this small felt wrong to both of us.
In the middle of the night his face turns greyish and he lies limp, just when a bottle is due. Do we feed first or go?
We go. A limp baby is never fed first and watched. Hospital comes first, and the bottle waits.
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