Weekend Update with Anchorman Daddy
Noises Noises Noises.
Getting used to the outside world is a little rough on her.
A selling point to her moving to this new real estate was peace, quiet, calm. Everything is better down in special care. We move slowly, we take our time, we encourage peaceful tranquility between all.
And then there is the new contruction zone.
The volume around Special Care has increased recently. More and more babies, more of them in the crying stage, more of them with alarms, and more of them needing critical care.
What? Special care becoming Critical Care? Not exactly, but it does feel like it sometimes. During one bottle feed last week, it was ended by the crying of 3 babies and 2 alarms. Too much for Jonna, she became to startled to continue. She was already too tired from listening to this now that she is in the open and this was just too much. Her best bottle feeding record was done inside the isolette, as I simply held her up inside one day and let her take it at her own pace. With stimulus at a minimum, she took 33cc's in 20 minutes.
Now with sleep low and stimulus at a maximum, she takes not much at all if any.
Yesterday, you could finally see her rest, as we stopped all bottle feeds to give her a chance to get used to the crib. She slept better and needs to sleep better.
A premature baby's nervous system is not yet finished. One or two stimulus can make her face turn red, arms stiffen and giving the stop sign you have seen in a lot of photos. She has definitely got to get used to all of the new noises, and hopefully special care will get quieter. But if it doesn't it will probably set us back some due to her having to adjust to the vast noise. This will take longer and the bottle will have to wait.
I believe she will get used to all the noise, as I said, yesterday she was sleeping very soundly through the noises.
Again, we wait. She will decide when she desires it all again. She will pick when she is ready for the noises. We all wait on her.
Getting used to the outside world is a little rough on her.
A selling point to her moving to this new real estate was peace, quiet, calm. Everything is better down in special care. We move slowly, we take our time, we encourage peaceful tranquility between all.
And then there is the new contruction zone.
The volume around Special Care has increased recently. More and more babies, more of them in the crying stage, more of them with alarms, and more of them needing critical care.
What? Special care becoming Critical Care? Not exactly, but it does feel like it sometimes. During one bottle feed last week, it was ended by the crying of 3 babies and 2 alarms. Too much for Jonna, she became to startled to continue. She was already too tired from listening to this now that she is in the open and this was just too much. Her best bottle feeding record was done inside the isolette, as I simply held her up inside one day and let her take it at her own pace. With stimulus at a minimum, she took 33cc's in 20 minutes.
Now with sleep low and stimulus at a maximum, she takes not much at all if any.
Yesterday, you could finally see her rest, as we stopped all bottle feeds to give her a chance to get used to the crib. She slept better and needs to sleep better.
A premature baby's nervous system is not yet finished. One or two stimulus can make her face turn red, arms stiffen and giving the stop sign you have seen in a lot of photos. She has definitely got to get used to all of the new noises, and hopefully special care will get quieter. But if it doesn't it will probably set us back some due to her having to adjust to the vast noise. This will take longer and the bottle will have to wait.
I believe she will get used to all the noise, as I said, yesterday she was sleeping very soundly through the noises.
Again, we wait. She will decide when she desires it all again. She will pick when she is ready for the noises. We all wait on her.
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