After the pride cometh the fall

Well, I was all excited about how great he was with breastfeeding on Saturday, but yesterday was a totally different day. Little Cooper was not about the breastfeeding life yesterday. We tried at two different feeds and he was screaming and fussing and just not at all happy about it. Then I was crying and apologizing and it just made for a hot mess. The nurses told me I was doing everything right and he just wasn’t interested. They had a couple of tips to possibly make it easier for him and we will try again today. 

I know a lot of people have trouble, but I’m just worried that given his situation, a bad experience or two will turn him off of eating orally altogether. 😭

There were plenty of positive steps yesterday, though. 

• On his two-week birthday he is up to a whopping 5 lbs 11 oz! 
• We took out his oxygen mid-day and he did great without it. He was still on room air when Mat left around 10:30 pm.
• He finished his course of antibiotics for the meningitis, so is finally off all antibiotics!

He enjoyed most of the rest of the day, aside from the feedings. We read to him and sang to him and cuddled the crap out of him as usual. 

In the evening we went to a class on how to parent/infant CPR that is a prerequisite for getting discharged. Still not sure how close we are (probably at least another week or two) but we figured we’d knock it out now. We did get to bring a baby home last night, but it was unfortunately only a blow-up model.