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@meetz Also had a 27-weeker, he spent 90 days in the NICU and ended up coming home on low flow oxygen (.125L/min) for a couple months due to desats during feeds. It’s definitely scary when you see desats but it does get better as you get more exposure. You’ll notice them getting less...

@jsw3883 Good call on revoking the nurses’ feeding privileges. A key point in that book is that you should limit the number of people doing feeds while you’re overcoming an aversion (ideally only one person is doing them).

@this_dot Nobody wants their baby to need a feeding tube, but I promise it is much less daunting than it sounds. If she does need a G tube, it will give you the opportunity to make sure she’s getting all her calories in without having to stress about how she’s taking bottles. And it won’t stop...

@saintvron With our 27-weeker the neonatologists told us we were “pretty much out of the woods” for NEC when he hit like 34 weeks

@stereodanny Have you talked to a pulmonologist? When our LO was dealing with really bad reflux, it was irritating his throat and causing inflammation and stridor. We had an inhaler that we gave him 2x per day that resolved it and had albuterol on hand should he ever need it (luckily he didn’t)