Missed his first bottle.
We haven’t been to the NICU in over a week to visit our son because we got sick. And not all at the same time. I got a heavy cold, and the day my fever broke, our three-year-old came down with it. His fever broke last night, now my husband is coming down with it.
Our 26wk-turned 37 weeker had his first bottle yesterday, and I’m very sad and frustrated to have missed it. I asked the NICU to take pictures and save the bottle for me, and they say they have. I feel like such a child for feeling, “but I wanted to be the one to do it!” Fed is the goal, there will be more bottles, one day we’ll try nursing, we’ll get so many other firsts… But I’m still upset because I was using his first bottle to encourage myself as something to look forward to when he wasn’t weaning well off the oxygen. And I missed it. I don’t want to miss anything else.