Making Strides

We have been home for almost a week now, and L*ily has been making strides with feeding. We met our new pediatrician on Monday, and L weighed an ounce more than she did on Sat - this is on track with what they want to see. Our new pediatrician was recommended for her experience and also b/c she heads the Down Syndrome clinic within the clinic. However, she also happens to be my nephews' doc too. L started the week at home eating the same amounts at a feeding but adding 2 feedings each day. I was excited but quite sleep deprived those first 3 days - we went from feedings every 3 hours (+pumping) with a kind nurse usually stepping in at 2 or 5am to feeding every 2 hours (+pumping) and no helpers in the night (D couldn't because of working and suffering from a cold). But then, just as my wise occupational therapist said, L started stretching her feedings back out again. In fact, she started cluster feeding in the late evening (she is definitely a night owl!) and has now slept 4-5 hours at night for the last 3 nights! This is how I have time (and a brain!) to actually post again! We are praising God for these strides and are so happy that we avoided both a G-tube and a trip back to the hospital at least so far. We are beginning to try breastfeeding too, but we will be mostly working with bottles of breast milk for a while.