Dad gives Natalie a Cup Feed

Dad had his first lesson in cup feeding Natalie this evening. This is a technique to allow her to sip milk from a cup rather than us feeding her via the tube in her nose directly to her stomach. Now we have found out about her cleft, we have been advised she will get too tired trying to get enough milk via breast feeding, so cup feeding is an alternative. You have to tip the cup at the same rate she sips from it, or she chokes on it. Tricky as she tends to try and grab the cup with both hands. Dad managed to get most of the milk into her mouth rather than down her chin, and was then taught how to burb her to get all the air out she takes in with the milk this way.

Natalie now weighs 1.749Kg (3lbs 14oz).

Contented Natalie after her feed