Madison has officially crossed week 2 .. and the trials of parenthood begin...
I am quite happy to say that the initial pains of breastfeeding have settled somewhat... the initial pain of latching is better, the boobs are getting used to being chomped on 2-3hourly...
But now, the terrors of little Madison are starting... first up, the battle to settle to sleep. For some reason, Madison settled quite peacefully in the first week into her cot, but this week, she began to develop an aversion to her cot!
Part of the reason could be that she has been somewhat unwell this week, suffering from a groin abscess/pustule thing that nobody knows how she developed. We took her to see the neonatologist Dr Yong on Monday, where the pus was partially drained and cultured. She was then started empirically on oral amoxicillin and cloxacillin for the week. The amoxicillin she took well, but oh, the clox tasted terrible and she would fuss terribly taking it 6 hourly. I diluted it with sugar water which made it barely better... The culture grew a Staph aureus which was resistant to penicillin and amox but thankfully sensitive to clox. Then she started having diarrhoea from the amox... which we stopped...
Thankfully the pustules are resolving and her diarrhoea is settling. However she has become more clingy and fussy over the past few days, and has ended up in our bed at night and needed us to comfort her to sleep. And using me as a human pacifier...
This is in addition to the neonatal jaudice that she had in week 1, the highest SB reaching 244Umol/l. She has had to endure painful heelpricks, at one time daily readings as her bilirubin was climbing...Thank goodness she did not end up with phototherapy...
The upside? Well, she is certainly more active this week, stretching and yawning and even lifting her head slightly from a prone position! She smiles spontaneously too...and cries even more loudly this week...She is also more alert first thing in the mornings now...
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