Will had another good uneventful day today. It was his third day in a row with a regular nurse and a trainee, where the trainee does all the handling. If he has another trainee tomorrow I've decided to complain to the charge nurse (like a manager) because that's just too much stress for him. The blood draw for his tests this evening took WAY longer than it really needed to and the couple times I saw the trainee reposition him she kept having to move him, and move him, and then adjust him some more which stresses him out and then he needs more oxygen. So I'm sure it's valuable experience and everyone has to start somewhere, but placing unexperienced people in a position to handle him multiple days in a row is too much. He was so stressed out after his standard evening care of diaper change, switching the CPAP attachment, repositioning and blood draw that we just decided to let him rest and not even ask about holding him. Poor little guy. The training nurse yesterday did a much better job of making sure he didn't get overhandled/stressed and he was just fine for us to hold about 5 minutes after evening care. My father came to see him for the first time today, and was impressed how small he is.
The doctor says he may be getting his first tube feedingtomorrow. They want to start with a very small amount of special formula which doc says is easier to digest than milk and will coat the stomach just as a test to see how he does. Does anyone know more about that? I don't like the idea of him having any formula, especially when I'm working so hard pumping to get milk for him, and I thought colostrum was the absolute perfect food for babies, does being premature change that any? I tried to find any info on that and only found reference after reference saying breastmilk is much more important for preemies than for term babies and is actually formulated differently by the mother than it would be for a term baby. So I haven't decided yet what to think of that.
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