I have gone back and forth about wether or not to blog about this certain issue. After much thought I decided my story needed to be shared. At least to have it out there if there is anyone who might read it and learn from it. I feel the same way about my infertility story. If people had not shared with me there infertility stories, I would have felt so alone.
Dryver was born not wanting to suck. He was born at 2:42 on Sunday morning. We should have gone home on Monday, but this was not the case. The on call pediatrician watched Dryver closely and decided he was not acting like a typical newborn. He told us he was going to take Dryver on Monday morning and do an ultrasound on his brain. He was afraid that his brain had not developed correctly and therefore he could not suck. As you can imagine, this was very scary for us.
We were told we would know the results by the end of Monday. Of course, yet again this was not the case. We didn't find out our results until Tuesday morning. What a long night. The results were unremarkable. So to our family that means he must be GT:) We were very excited with the results, but still curious as to why Dryver wouldn't eat. We were at the hospital until late Wednesday afternoon. During that time we continued trying to breast feed religiously every three hours, but he still wasn't sucking.
We were very excited the first time he sucked on his own. Then again when he did 2 sucks on his own, and so on. The issue was always sucking, not breastfeeding. So that meant that we couldn't just go to formula feeding out of a bottle. We had an array of techniques used to get him to start sucking.
We tried bottle feeding, syringe feeding, sugar water, supplemental breastfeeding system, pumping, breast shields. You name it, and we probably tried it. When we left the hospital he still was not eating on his own. They chalked it up to hard labor and delivery that left him stunned, as well as a child that was born not needing to eat.
Since then he has been eating like a champ. I have been able to successfully breastfeed on my own. I share this story because I have never heard of a child having an ultrasound of their brain. Hopefully you or someone you know will never have to go through this, but if it does occur you will know that you are not in this alone.
3 comments:
Kat - i'm really glad you shared ya'lls story.....i think it will definitly inspire/encourage others AND i bet it was therapy for you to express everything too! love you
I'm still a little wierded out that you didn't share the brain ultrasound with me until after it was all said and done. However, I understand you being sensitive to me not being able to be there. I know that I am a bit biased, but that baby boy is a CHAMP and you are daily an inspriration to me in my upcoming attempts at breastfeeding with Addilyn. You have restored my confidence in the attempt to make this work!
Good job Kat!!! You are a great mommy, because you knew your little man would pull through and you didn't give up. Way to go. I think that motherly/fatherly strength comes through only from the Spirit when things like that happen. Have a awesome week. So glad you shared.
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