The past two days we have been working toward being discharged today. Everything seemed great when we got there. It was only at 12:30, an hour before we expected to be close to heading home, that the doctors made rounds and told us that Colton had lost too much weight and would need to stay another day. Apparently he is at 9% weight loss and the cut off for his gestational age is 10%. If he looses more weight they will want to place a feeding tube...and I'm guessing that would add another 3-4 days to his stay. We are little frustrated (beyond the obvious disappointment) because no one said anything to us about this being a concern until now. He was on ad lib feeding, meaning he was only fed when he woke up...sometimes in 4-5 increments, and eating around 25-35ml each feeding. Now they want him eating every 3 hours and at least 45ml. Um...you couldn't have reached this conclusion yesterday?
So needless to say, the afternoon was a little rough. We did have our first real breastfeeding session though, so that was a bright point. Being a preemie, he latches, starts sucking, then forgets what he is doing and stops, but we got a good 10 minutes in before he quit for good today. And I am happy to report that he did take 45ml between the breast and formula at his evening feeding before we headed home. Fingers crossed he can maintain his weight for tomorrow.
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