Hi mummies,
I'm back from hospital.
Irvin's 3.82kg, 49cm length, 36cm head circumference, via elective c-section on 17-06-06, 3 days after EDD.
C-section recovery faster but just as painful, jaundice detected early.
Doublelight treatment on 2nd day (unknown jaundice reading, just from visual and sibling history- my #1 gal had early jaundice too).
Single light treatment on 3rd day (9.2 jaundice reading but they screwed up- misconveyed to my PD as 5.2, lucky my PD kiasu due to our pressure).
Discharge on 3rd day, ie today (5.0 jaundice reading where 1.5 is no jaundice, 10 warrants doublelight treatment). To sun morning, evening, visually monitor and see PD on Fri.
Sat 4am admission. 7:30am elective c-section. 12nn see bb for 1st time. Latched 2x entire day, glucose cupfeed rest of time cos drowsy from painkiller (nurse afraid I'd drop bb) and to delay uterus contraction pains when nursing.
Sun drip, catheter removed. Mobile. Latched 5x entire day, rest of time not allowed to dally with bb- bb sent for doublelight treatment for jaundice. Glucose cupfeeds cos the light treatment is dehydrating (and saves abit of time on bfg so bb can spend as much time as possible on light treatment). I started on MIM NURSING TEA, GNC FENUGREEK SUPPLEMENTS, USANA OMEGA CAPSULES (all these supposedly aid milk supply).
Mon Latched as much as I cld but colostrum seems lesser than when I had #1 gal. Shows that frequent latching is key- #1 was via c-section and I latched her right when I was conscious, every 3 hrs from day 1. I din take BFG supplements with #1 when in hospital! Bb #2 on single lightbed therapy. Topped up latching (20mins each side) with glucose cos colostrum din seem enough.
Tues discharged both me and bb. Gd thing is that with #2 bb, less uterus contraction pains and less nipple trauma, probably cos I'm less aggressive in latching. But downside is colostrum/ milk supply, lesser/ come in slower, despite bfg supplements so early on.
Hope above info useful for jaundice, milk supply issues. Jaundice itself makes bb lethargic, try to make bb feed more, drink more.