So, we moved in two nights and that was very helpful. We had the NICU staff there twenty-four hours a day if I needed help with the oxygen or feeding. We made it through it, once we got used to being at home, in a new environment, he did quite well. Families may go home before feeding is adequately established Some families reported that they felt pressured to take their infants home before they were confident that their infants could maintain adequate nutritional intake. Yeah, I distinctly remember that when we got released from the hospital, they had just taken the gavage away, and then they send you home and the baby's been doing this gavage thing.
Endurance is an issue.
I don't know, but it really felt like there was this pressure, and they said that in the past they would have had us stay, you know, four more weeks. Because they were gavaging some of the time. She couldn't nipple every feed either breast or bottle. And you know, I didn't want to do that. And then when my husband agreed to, he would gavage her at home.