Is she breast feeding him, Cash? Can they put him on a high caloric diet?

Is she breast feeding him, Cash?

He's allergic to breast milk, so I'm assuming not.

Damn, Kat--speaking of fonts of knowledge, I hate listening to preemie parents give such levels of detail, because of all the sleepless nights and stress and glayvin that came with that information. But it's good when it can be shared.

do you want one of us to call and ask theoretical questions tomorrow? I could do that.

I dunno? I mean...I'm frozen with indecision right now. Being right is so clearly insufficient. I'm in the mode now of trying to throw everything at once, but I am hitting a bit of a brick wall with the therapies. Fucking logistics, man. But other people do this! I am not exceptional. So what am I missing? How do these facilities have the narrow hours that they do? I mean, the water therapy place is basically only open during lunch, but not really near me. Home or office.

::sigh::

Did I mention frozen?

It boggles my mind that a baby can be allergic to breast milk--but it happens. My sister is sitting on the mother lode of milk in her freezer. She's in the process of donating it to a milk bank.

Kat and Strega are both amazing.

It boggles my mind that a baby can be allergic to breast milk--but it happens.

Indeed. It happened to my younger brother.

Kat's amazing; I just knew a good place to start hunting.

ita ! I don't want to put more on your plate when you're at your limit. Can you just give a thumbs up on anything that doesn't use any personal identifiers? A couple of people here are just doing a little research project about this hypothetical situation. Hell, if you want we could whitefont or backchannel until there's something useful to report; if we go down a blind alley you don't need to follow along.

Skipping sadly-yet-again to post that, according to the Buffista Calendar, today is Kate P's birthday.

Happy birthday, Kate! With lots of wishes for a great day and a wonderful year!

Happy birthday, Kate P!

I know I have no vote in Reece's care (obviously) but the mom in me votes hard for your sister trusting her instinct and avoiding the G tube. Sammy is also nine months and weighs 17lbs but he wasn't a preemie. I'm sure that having him so small is scary especially in the winter and with RSV, etc. every picture I've seen of Reece, he's been wearing a hat so I'm sure he's not burning calories staying warm but I do like Kat's idea about O2.

Two thoughts, I guess. If he's happy, alert, making (adjusted) milestones, but just small, then I think his mom should feel good about how he's doing. I know Kat has lived this and I haven't, but I think it is so hard to be a new mom with a fragile child. Beyond the tiredness and the worry, parenting started with so many scary things. I don't see how that doesn't shape your perspective as a parent. But I also think doctors really like to "fix" stuff and it doesn't sound like anything is broken with Reece.

I have no idea if my Sammy experience is relevant to Reece, but Sammy was small (10%) for many months. Then I realized that he had been fighting thrush for a long time (like, 2 months) and a cold, etc. he ended up gaining three lbs (14 to 17 lbs) in three months and I know this is not what the books say, but gained tons of weight on regular food. Personally, I agree (can you agree with a fact?) that formula/breastmilk has more calories than regular food but in Sammy's case, it was the food that made him gain.

That's rather long winded but I just want Lori to feel supported in trusting herself

I know I have no vote in Reece's care (obviously) but the mom in me votes hard for your sister trusting her instinct and avoiding the G tube. Sammy is also nine months and weighs 17lbs but he wasn't a preemie. I'm sure that having him so small is scary especially in the winter and with RSV, etc. every picture I've seen of Reece, he's been wearing a hat so I'm sure he's not burning calories staying warm but I do like Kat's idea about O2.

Two thoughts, I guess. If he's happy, alert, making (adjusted) milestones, but just small, then I think his mom should feel good about how he's doing. I know Kat has lived this and I haven't, but I think it is so hard to be a new mom with a fragile child. Beyond the tiredness and the worry, parenting started with so many scary things. I don't see how that doesn't shape your perspective as a parent. But I also think doctors really like to "fix" stuff and it doesn't sound like anything is broken with Reece.

I have no idea if my Sammy experience is relevant to Reece, but Sammy was small (10%) for many months. Then I realized that he had been fighting thrush for a long time (like, 2 months) and a cold, etc. he ended up gaining three lbs (14 to 17 lbs) in three months and I know this is not what the books say, but gained tons of weight on regular food. Personally, I agree that formula/breast ill has more calories than regular food but in Sammy's case, it was the food that made him gain.

That's rather long winded but I just want Lori to feel supported in trusting herself