Setting the alarm

I'm pretty much a creature of habit and do not accept change well. Yesterday I showed up at the hospital for Gavin and Riley's noon feed. I arrived at 11:40 and the nurse that was on (never had her before) had already changed Gavin and taken his temp, all that was left to do was feed him.

It seems she bottle fed both of my babies at the 9am feed. This may not seem like too big of a deal, but if they are bottle fed at 9am, they are NOT bottle fed at noon as it takes way too much out of them. She then proceeds to tell me that Gavin only took 10 cc's of a bottle which had 38 cc's in it, but on the good side Riley took his whole bottle. Um, yeah lady, GREAT.

When I leave the hospital, whether it is in the morning or at night, I always inform the nurse what time I will be back. Everytime I go, I get to feed my boys, only exception is bath day. Since yesterday was her first day, she doesn't know my boys, but she will know my schedule as it doesn't really change and is noted in their charts. Noon and 9pm feeds, EVERYDAY!!!

Gavin is slow to start his bottle, then half way through, he has a BIG burp, then just guzzles the rest of his bottle. Most nurses watch Gavin and suggest that he is tired, both Glenn and I politely ignore them and he finishes. When we showed up last night, not surprising, Gavin didn't finish his 3pm feed either. He finished for Glenn though, and usually does for us.

Riley on the other hand, seems to just love the bottle and can't get enough. He finishes almost every time. No problem there!

I usually stay for an hour and a half to two hours during the day. I feed them, then just hold them. Sometimes I chat with the nurses, but yesterday I didn't. I was mad. It's not the same when you hold your baby and feed him through a freakin' tube!!! Gavin was wide awake when I got there and I'm pretty sure he would have taken a bottle, but she really didn't seem open to discussion.

Yippee, today I get her again!!! I get to bath one of the boys and she will bath the other one. When I asked her if we could do it at night so that Glenn could learn with me, well..that didn't go over well. Honestly, in my head I was thinking, sorry for wanting to include Glenn. I think she is bathing one at 9am and I'm bathing the other at noon, hard to say as the discussion was short.

We discussed this issue with the nurse we had last night and she suggested that I change my morning schedule. The boys are on a 3 hour feed schedule and bottling happens at 9am, 3pm, 9pm and 3am. If I were to keep the noon feed schedule, then it would screw up the 9pm feed and Glenn wouldn't get to feed them.

I don't have a problem with getting up for 9am, it's the traffic battle I have a problem with. It's an hour to get to the hospital in rush hour vs. 20 minutes, which would you pick? Sadly my husband had a good point last night (I HATE when that happens), this will only be for another week or two. Also, the nurse said that once they are on bottles for every feed, it won't matter what time I come in. Ok, true.

So today I will stick with noon as that's what we discussed, but tomorrow I will set my alarm and then battle "rush" hour, the end destination/reward is my very cute boys



Have a great day.....I think I see the sun!!!