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Valentina, I looked up my records.. my girl's wt at 32 weeks is 1.56 kg. Born at 29wks.

blossom, The great majority of babies do "get it" before discharge or shortly after discharge. I think there is at least one mummy here who brought baby home on tube feeds and then successfully transitioned to bottle feeds.. Jagiebaby and/or Jublee? Does baby take anything from bottle at...

Sunkissed, I don't recall if you are in kkh or other hospital? Usually Drs are quite conservative and only move to SCN when they feel your baby really can handle it. IMO the more effective approach would be to bring it up with doctors and the nurse "sisters" there, inform them (nicely) that...

Chewy, Sorry to hear that gross motor progress is slow for your #2. My boy's gross motor was also quite delayed - crawled at 10 months CA, sat up unassisted at 1 yr CA, cruised at 11 months CA, walked at 18 months CA. Back when he wasn't making much progress you can tell that PT and Dr...

thanks sally. Accepted!

Hi all. Could I be added to the fb group too? [email protected]

hi all. My darlings are two years (actual) today! Can't believe that it's been so long. Stats - my boy is 84cm/11.5kg. So still quite small and short.. My girl is approx 89 cm/13.2kg. Blossom and sunkissed, the nicu/scn days are hard and long. My thoughts are with your babies. My only advice...

Sunkissed, My boy had more problems than most preemies. Long stay due to o2 dependence. He's more or less ok today at 21mos corrected :o) Hubby and I are US-based and thankfully our insurance paid majority of costs..our out of pocket for my 10 wk bedrest, plus the twins was SGD 14k. You...

sunkissed, I just looked at my girl's bill for KKH. She spent 41 days in NICU and 18 days in SCN, so total 59 days. The bill after govt grant (downgrade to C class) was $23K. So it seems like 60k for 163 days is about right. It may be somewhat less than 60k because SCN costs about $100/day...

Julbee, don't worry too much. Take her to the developmental clinic as advised. They will most probably have a physical therapist evaluate her and teach you some exercises to do with baby. These exercises will help her progress. Is your bb sitting at all? Supported? In tripod position? If she...

Raymond, sorry to hear about the previa. Hopefully your wife's pregnancy will still be uneventful. There are few guarantees in life, and a bed in the nicu is unfortunately not one of them. That being said, I believe if you let KK know of your wife's situation in advance, KK can better...

Hi all, have not checked in for a bit. Very sad to hear of babies who have moved on. My thoughts are with you. eedaddy, my limited experience with EBM and pooing is that usually EBM poo is quite frequent and watery..but some babies also have infrequent poos (up to 7 to 10 days occasionally...

imho the painful bruising massage is BS. Just keep on doing *gentle* massage and pumping every 3 hours. Don't be discouraged by nurses/LC who tell you that milk should have come in by now. It can take up to 5 days to come in. Keep up the good work

babymaking, So sorry to hear about the rupture.. I had ruptured membranes from wk 18-29. Whatever you do, do NOT let the doctors examine you internally or insert anything into the vagina. Most doctors will not know about the risk of infection or don't care (its true) because they think you...

Re whether baby <30 weeks needs CPAP: I've seen a few babies who breathe room air on their own after the first 1-5 days..but those are the minority. So yes, I think a baby under 30 weeks would need some CPAP, or more intervention honestly. 36 or 37 weeks is the cutoff most doctors use for...