Baby too comfortable with feeding tube
My baby girl was born full term at 40 + 3 weeks via an emergency caesarean section due to failure of progression of labour. I was induced and was in labour for ten hours. There were no post birth complications with the baby and she wasn’t in fetal distress during labour. Birth weight was 3.88 kg. She is now 2 weeks old.
She had to be taken to the NICU on the second day due to fast breathing rate and got treated with antibiotics. The next two days she developed jaundice and had phototherapy for two days. In that period she had a feeding tube inserted due to poor feeding. She would take up to 20 ml and lose interest in the rest of the feed. She was investigated to find the cause of her feeding issues and nothing was identified.
The feeding tube is in place and she got discharged from the hospital.
Now I have noticed that even though she is still hungry after taking a few mls from her bottle, but she still loses interest and cries a lot. I have to give her the rest of her feed through her tube because she becomes inconsolable and doesn’t want to take the bottle at all.
Is she going to eventually start taking full feeds with the bottle? Is there a possibility that she is used to the comfort of the being fed through a tube and will have difficulty with oral feeds because of this?
Thanks in advance for advice!
Sincerely,
A distressed mum.