We had such wonderful nurses help us during our stay at the hospital. They were very helpful with tips on breastfeeding and any questions we had.
Some of the wonderful nurses were our birthing nurse Suzette, Carmen, who helped me with breastfeeding tips at night, Holly, who helped with Talon while he needed photo therapy and helped me pump and Elaine who visited us while he was cluster feeding in the incubator and helped me with questions I had before we were discharged.
Talon was jaundiced and we found out we could not go home the 2nd day after he was born. He had to receive photo therapy and stay in the incubator for a 24 hour period. I had to pump extra breast milk and feed it to him through a feeding tube that was inserted while he was breastfeeding. As well, Mike was able to finger-feed him the breast milk with the tube being taped to him finger. He thought it was amazing to be able to participate in feeding him. Pumping with a pump on each breast was quite a daunting task! As well, Talon was cluster feeding that night and wanted to feed every hour. Since I was also pumping for 15 mins. after feeding him, by the time I was done I would get about 10 mins. sleep before he was hungry again.
We were lucky enough to get to stay in the birthing room the next two nights as no one else was needing it at that time. The third night they said we could stay in the birthing room because babies who need photo therapy can sometimes stay in a private room if they are available.
It was a difficult night. We were very glad to hear the next day that he was well enough to go home! We cried out of joy and couldn't wait to take our little boy home.
His weight was 6lbs. and 2 oz. when we were discharged.
