Feeding Lynnea

Lynnea continues to do very well. She is only on Tylenol now for pain (I think they still have orders to give Morphine as needed, but she hasn't needed any since Saturday). On Saturday, they began feeding her Pedialyte, and then yesterday switched over to breast milk. She has been doing OK with that. Yesterday they let me feed her two of her bottles. It is a lot of work for her to eat; she retained her sucking reflex (when they put babies on IV nutrition for any extended amount of time, there is always a chance that they will simply forget how to eat on their own), but she has a hard time coordinating her sucking and her swallowing, but she's getting better at it, and in time she will probably be OK. Hopefully, once she gets better at eating off from a bottle, she will be willing to go back to nursing, but there is a chance that we will always have to bottle feed her.