Corgan is three months old today...Dr Egner said Corgan could alternate between bottle and breast feeds from now on with no tube feeds in between... Corgan weighs 1.590 kg. He had an eye test and his eyes are healthy. Silindile was looking after Corgan today and she had to leave the ward midway through the test as she began crying as she assisted Dr Blignaut and watched the test take place...Vanessa took over from her... All his feeds went well this morning...When we arrived back at the hospital in the evening things had changed...Corgan was desatting continuously and even needed to Neopuffed and had a bit of oxygen blowing near his face... Dr Egner was called and he said the feed tube should be reinserted and only feed tubes to be taken for the rest of the night... We were not happy....he looked pale and weak...his body was quite limp...when I picked Corgan up, he burped right away which is exactly what we suspected - he needed to be burped more!! I burped him for quite a while and his SpO2 stayed between 90 and 100 for the rest of the night...Shane explained clearly to the night nurse that Corgan needs to be burped after every feed, including tube feeds, even if his tongue is down...Surely we would know...I do a lot of his feeds, I spend many more hours with my baby every day than any nurse does...its so frustrating...
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