JosephinesMommy
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Sorry, but I needed to vent my frustrations to someone who understands what I am going through.
We just had our CF Clinic appointment today. We have been going every three weeks since Bug (Josephine) came home from the NICU. Bug has been steadily gaining weight. She came home mid Novemeber at 7lbs, today (she will be 3 months on the 28th) she weighed 10lbs 6oz and is over 24inches long! She is long and thin! Her height is in the 75th % and her weight is in the 25th% but her height to weight doesn't register. Her daddy and I were both long thin babies and he is 6'4 and I am 5' 8. I have been exclusively breastfeeding Bug and including one "fortified" bottle a day. She HATES the bottle. It is a stuggle to get her to eat it. She will just eat enough to satify the hunger pangs and then she will refuse to eat anymore. Some days she will eat all 5oz but mostly she only eats 2-3 and then wants to BF in an hour or so afterwards. Today at the clinic I was told to increase her to getting 3 bottles a day. This is so hard. So now I have to make a bottle, feed her, offer the breast after and then pump and hope to God I get milk out. I, luckily, have a freezer full of milk from her hospital stay when she wasn't allowed to eat so I have milk to give her, but I feel as though I will run out and then I will have to formula feed which I DO NOT want to do. I never imagined that this would be my life, and I know that there are a lot of other battles that will be a lot worse than this one, but I want to give my daughter what is best for her and I know that breastmilk is best. I am feeling like giving up... I HATE CF!
Sorry for the vent, but thank you for reading!
We just had our CF Clinic appointment today. We have been going every three weeks since Bug (Josephine) came home from the NICU. Bug has been steadily gaining weight. She came home mid Novemeber at 7lbs, today (she will be 3 months on the 28th) she weighed 10lbs 6oz and is over 24inches long! She is long and thin! Her height is in the 75th % and her weight is in the 25th% but her height to weight doesn't register. Her daddy and I were both long thin babies and he is 6'4 and I am 5' 8. I have been exclusively breastfeeding Bug and including one "fortified" bottle a day. She HATES the bottle. It is a stuggle to get her to eat it. She will just eat enough to satify the hunger pangs and then she will refuse to eat anymore. Some days she will eat all 5oz but mostly she only eats 2-3 and then wants to BF in an hour or so afterwards. Today at the clinic I was told to increase her to getting 3 bottles a day. This is so hard. So now I have to make a bottle, feed her, offer the breast after and then pump and hope to God I get milk out. I, luckily, have a freezer full of milk from her hospital stay when she wasn't allowed to eat so I have milk to give her, but I feel as though I will run out and then I will have to formula feed which I DO NOT want to do. I never imagined that this would be my life, and I know that there are a lot of other battles that will be a lot worse than this one, but I want to give my daughter what is best for her and I know that breastmilk is best. I am feeling like giving up... I HATE CF!
Sorry for the vent, but thank you for reading!