Bottle feeding.. It's the small things!

So my babe has been feeding by bottle during the day for the past 4 days! 😁

It's such a small thing, but its made a huge difference to her progress and I'm absolutely thrilled she doesn't need the ng tube for daytime feeds anymore! The tube is still used for her continuous feed during the night - this is where her milk is pumped continuously over the duration of the night, she has 21ml going into her system every hour and this helps her to remain stable. When she hypos now, we can give a bolus feed (to bring her sugars back up again) instead of her original hypo plan of hypo stop (glucose gel absorbed into the gums), then 10% dextrose bolus if that fails and so on; which is simply amazing. Orlaith's like a different baby now, her blood transfusion was definitely needed, too - she's back to her normal self, constantly chatting and smiling! 

Our next steps are to gradually get Orlaith to four hourly feeding as we are currnetly on two hour feeds and on the bottle during the night too. 

Go babe, go! 💜