Gabrielle was release from the hospital back on May 4th, she was admitted back on April 20th. This time Gabrielle came home with her G-Tube which meant that we would be soon establishing a new daily routine. We also came home without a feeding pump and supplies from the home healthcare company. Those were ordered to be shipped overnight delivery, however it took 3 days to recieve everything we needed to begin Gabrielle's overnight feedings.
We have now been hooking Gabrielle up to her feeding pump at night time for one week, and what an interesting week it has been. Gabrielle is suppose to have 12oz of formula during the day and 12oz of formula during the night. It has bee difficult to get the 12oz during the day because she does not want to drink it all and we are not going to have the babysitter put it through her G-Tube. So we have ended up having to feed her 6 to 8oz between 4pm and 9pm each night and then hook her up to the feeding pump at 9pm. We are hoping that over time Gabrielle will learn to drink more during the day while with the babysitter. The the feeding pump is not calibrated corretly and the home healthcare company has not called me back yet. So Gabrielle is being give more formula in a shorter amount of time than she is suppose to be getting. This makes her feel full and miserable.
Anyways, now that we have time constrains on when we have to feed Gabrielle we finally have to become "those parents" that have to have a strict schedule that impacts our ability to do things at night. We now have to leave places early so we can get home to put Gabrielle to bed.
More later!
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