So how is this Fighter?  He’s okay, although I’m not even sure if he notices he’s out of the hospital now and at home. Lolol.

Continuing his love affair with Giraffe Friend.

Haha no la to be honest I don’t think he’s formed any attachment to Giraffe Friend yet.  Again, not sure if he’s even noticed Giraffe’s presence in his life (and bed) lol.

Besides sleeping, Fighter has also been feeding… but not breastfeeding. 🙁

He refuses to latch. T________T Preemies are supposed to have trouble latching; even while at the hospital whenever we practiced breastfeeding, most of the time he wouldn’t even open his mouth but just stick out his tongue and lick up milk. -_-

At first we thought he hadn’t developed the skill to latch yet.  But now I realize he does know how, he’s just lazy! When he’s really hungry and I don’t give him the bottle, he has no choice and latches on very well, with no prompting.  But after a few minutes he’s not hungry anymore and just stops. -_- Then when I nudge him, he presses his mouth shut wtf. -_-

But when give him the bottle, he happily take.  Damn sneaky lo this baby!

So now my days are filled with pumping and storing, then feeding him.

So much easier if you would just take milk direct from the source Fighter!!!! *tears at hair

In this picture he actually looks quite midsized right!  Only because I’m short hahaha whenever anyone sees him they go “SO SMALL!”

I was using Avent bottles and Fighter would take like an hour to finish his milk.  Switched to Medela and he drinks so much faster!  Mommy readers, what bottle do you use and why do you like it ah?

Then burping.  His arms out like Superman cos I know now that I put him too high up on my shoulder. D:

Fighter looks happy enough here but he’s actually been having trouble sleeping.  Which means that WE have been having trouble sleeping too. *zombie face

Every night when we put him in his cot, he makes all sorts of unhappy noises – grunts, frustrated sounding whines, whistling sounds and sighs, and his arms will flail and he will clutch his face or head. T____T Every time he made these sounds I’d leap out of bed to check if he was still breathing wtf cos some of it sounded like he was choking T______T

Then we realized he was just uncomfortable somehow.  Maybe too cold?  Swaddled him.  No wor.  Unswaddled him, also cannot.

Thought maybe he felt insecure being in such a big bed compared to his incubator and put a bumper Suet got him around the bed but no avail.

Checked his diaper repeatedly but also nooooo *wails

But then in the daytime when we put him in his rocker downstairs he slept like a log. D:

We gnawed on our knuckles for a bit.  I’m sure babies aren’t supposed to sleep in rockers the whole time right!  If they were, why are they still selling cots wtf.

We finally found out why today.

Brought Fighter for his checkup today!

Doctor heard a little snuffle in his breathing and turns out that he has a bit of snot in his nose.  The snot makes him breathe through his mouth more so he gulps air when drinking milk and it turned into a gas problem.

The gas in turn will cause burping but if he doesn’t burp it turns into farts (bingo wtf) and discomfort and grunts, frustrated sounding whines, whistling sounds and sighs.  Sounds familiar huh.

So the doctor gave us a saline nasal spray to clear his snot and so far it seems to be working.

Only problem is, there’s no escaping feeling like an asshole every time you spray saline water into a tiny baby’s face wtf.