Emilia is 1 week old corrected and 108 days old actual. She is either sleeping or eating all day long. So far not much of interaction with Mommy and Daddy except falling asleep on their chest and crying & screaming when hungry and when she wants to be cuddled. She keeps crying until being picked up and cuddled. As soon as we put her back in the crib, she goes on crying again.
She is becoming to look more and more like a girl. Until about a month ago, she looked like a boy, quite frankly. People still say she looks like her daddy but now I start to see a little bit of me in her face too, especially her lips.
She now weighs 3.6Kg... last few days her weight gain was a bit stalled but on average she's been gaining a healthy amount of weight each day. Her appetite is huge. Sometimes she needs to eat every hour. She's got nipple confusion, big time. She doesn't want to latch on and suck properly when breastfed. She already knows the bottle is much easier, but I have no choice. When she's hungry and I am not there at the hospital, the nurses need to bottle her. When she's crying and I am not there to console her, the nurses need to put a pacifier in her mouth. She's been sucking on soothers since she was 26-7 weeks gestation so I cannot suddenly take it away from her now.
I am going to sleep in the hospital tomorrow and the day after tomorrow to breastfeed her round the clock - just to make sure we are able to do it.
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