A couple of days after Ethan's surgery, I noticed that his oral bottle feeding had increased. Now that we are 2.5 weeks post surgery, his feeding in general has greatly increased.
Before the surgery, Ethan was sleeping through the night from between 10:00 pm and midnight to around 9:00 am in the morning. I would gavash him around 3:00 am or 4:00 am. After the surgery, Ethan started waking up between 1:00 am and 2:00 am. I would feed him and he would go to back to sleep until 9:00 am. I would still gavash early in the morning too.
During the day, Ethan was getting a lot fussier too. I started increasing his bottle feeding volume by several mL six times a day and have since jumped up to 150 mL today, which he actually took and kept down. He used to be very volume sensitive, but it now appears he is able to handle an increased volume. At one point, I fed him green beans and bananas and he still took a whole bottle an hour later.
Along with the increased bottle feeding, he is also taking more solid food. Now I am a little concerned that he is eating too much :) Since I tried 150 mL today and he handled it, I am going to try and give Ethan 5 bottle feeds a day of 150 mL of milk instead of 120 mL 6 times a day and see how that goes. We go in for an appointment on Monday where we will talk to his nutritionist and discuss how to proceed from here.
-Dina
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