Second Day

Well yesterday things were up and down a bit. Carla was a bit sore, and had a headache, and then there was some concern that Brandon might be a little dehydrated.

We expressed some colostrum and took this to the nursery, so they fed him that and some formula and then kept him to see if he peed.

I went down 2 hours later and was told that he hadn't peed, so they would need to put him on an iv drip. I also had some more expressed colostrum to give them. It took a while to figure out everything that had takenplace. The conversation went something like this:

Me: "Did you feed him the colostrum I gave earlier?"
Nurse: "Yes, we will feed him with formula."
Me: "No I mean I gave you colostrum earlier, two hours ago, did you feed it to Brandon?"
Nurse: "Yes, we will feed the colostrum and formula"
Me: "but I gave you colostrum two hours ago, did you already give it to him?"
Nurse: "Yes we will give the colostrum"
Me: "So you haven't yet fed him the colostrum?"
Nurse: "We will feed him, and we need to give him an iv drip"
Me: "are you sure you haven't already given him the previous colostrum I gave you two hours earlier? The nurse was going to feed him the colostrum at that time."
Nurse: quiet
Doctor walks in
Doc: "he hasn't yet had urination, so we need to put him on iv drip."
Me: "Okay, but I just want to know what he was fed earlier. I brought some colostrum for him to be fed with, did they feed that to him?"
Doc: "Okay, we will feed him the colostrum"
Me: " not this colostrum (I had another bottle with me), I brought some down here earlier, two hours ago, was he fed the colostrum two hours ago?"
Doc: "Okay we will feed him colostrum, but he must go on an iv drip tonight as he has not had urination"

this carried on for a bit, eventually we understood each other and she asked the nurse and he had already been fed the previous colostrum.

Doc: "But he hasn't had urination yet, so he must go on iv drip"
Me "okay, I understand. thank you"

While I was walking away to go back to the room, nurse runs after me
Nurse: " he is now urination, right now urination"

So no need for iv in the end.