If your baby was born early, they're going to spend some time in the neonatal intensive care unit. According to the gestational age, you may have to wait to breast or bottle feed your baby. Children who have yet to master the suck, swallow and breathe reflex will need to eat differently. Tube feeding formula or human milk provides your child gets the calories he or she needs, until they are able to feed their own. Some kids take formula is better than others and some have huge problems if they are born very early.
Suck, swallow and breathe reflex occurs naturally approximately 32-34 weeks. Until then child tries to eat out of the bottle and can choke even inhaling formula in their lungs, which is never a good thing. This is where tube feeding is done, along with IV for complementary feeding when necessary. While most babies breast milk with few problems, some cannot digest it right now. Nurses check for this, emptying of the stomach to feed, to see if it was digested. The formula is harder to digest than formula, and some children combat and IV should be left in place until that changes.
Most of the time, only a small amount will be paid for the first time tried feeding tubes. This is to be digested. A child may vomit if nothing happens through the system and too much is available. Usually one to five cubic centimetres is available for the first few feedings at a very young preemies to see what happens. If these are going well, feeding and baby digests, the amount will be raised very slowly. So long as digestion, the baby may soon be the IV tube feeding and can take only until they can take to breast or bottle.
Moms who want breast feed their preemie is often put off by the tube feeding formula or breast milk. It's hard to go through it when you are breastfeeding, but simply don't have the possibility of preemie properly latch your chest, and still is, suck, swallow, breathe. Some moms must come to realize that if their child was born young enough that the power tube formula or breast milk, breastfeeding can never be an option. You can continue to pump your milk for them. This is not the same thing, but they get breast milk, so the first thing you need to feed.
Only very occasionally baby go home from intensive care, still requires feeding tubes, formula or breast milk, but it can happen. Rest assured that if you have to do it at home you'll know what you're doing and how to do it before you leave the hospital. Your child's doctors and nurses will do everything possible to get power tubes, and if you have to go home with one, you'll have a plan of action to make it back as soon as your baby is ready.
Title : Tube feeding formula for Preemies
Description : If your baby was born early, they're going to spend some time in the neonatal intensive care unit. According to the gestational age, you...