Premature babies are born at different stages and encounter different challenges so you can't generalize but I did want to share two things that I've learned over the past week. First, as I referenced earlier when I was talking about the sideline breastfeeding position, a sleepy baby who is breastfeeding but then falls asleep sucking on your breast. A.K.A. the human pacifier problem. Bracey does this all the time. There are two ways you can tell whether or not your baby is actually breastfeeding. Number one, you listen for the sound of the baby swallowing the milk and number two, look right here at their jaw and see whether you see the jaw moving which is how baby is suck. With Bracey, I've noticed a lot that he starts eating. I'm like, great, he's now breastfeeding. He seems to stop and I realize that he's just sucking on my breast. Now the tricky thing here is that his suck is so strong that I can barely get him off. I've tried the tip that I shared with you guys in the past where I wet my pinky finger and I insert it between my nipple and Bracey's mouth but his suck is so strong that I can barely get my finger in there and by the way when I have managed to get my finger in there and my finger ultimately ends up in his mouth, I cannot believe that this little 5 pound baby is sucking with the force of a hurricane. A few times I got so frustrated that I could barely release this suction that I ripped Bracey off of my breast and this is terrible and I now have a huge white blister on my left breast from ripping the baby off the breast which you should never do. So anyway, in a situation like this where you find that the baby is sucking on your breast and not really breastfeeding, try to do what I say to break this suction with your finger. Try to get the baby off the breast and try to then awaken the baby by changing their diaper, changing their outfit and then offer them more food to try to make sure that you've finished the breastfeeding session. One thing that helps is to take your babies close off and to feed them just with their diaper on and the nico actually recommended this because they really like kangaroo or skin to skin care for babies and this is good for all babies not just for pre-me babies.