Bring on the Bottle
Chris Wahlmark
It feels like things are advancing pretty quickly here lately. Sammi is almost ready to get out of her incubator (should happen any day now) and Josie is starting to bottle feed! Both girls have been showing signs of rooting, and Josie has really taken to her pacifier, so they’re now seeing how she does with a bottle. Hope got to do the honors of the first bottle feed, and it was just slightly more stressful than we both anticipated. Between holding the baby at the correct angle, starting and stopping the feed, looking signs of reflux or distress, and having to burp what still feels like a very tiny, fragile human, it was pretty overwhelming, but she took 7ml on her first try, so that seems like a great start to us.
