Fifi will be 12 days old tomorrow and I'm having to leave her for most of the day. I've been expressing since I was in hospital to make sure there will be enough for her. I wouldn't want to leave her so soon under normal circumstances but her great-nan died when she was 4 days old and it's her funeral tomorrow.
Thursday is my OH's birthday and we went out for a meal last night, again I wouldn't normally like to have left her but as his birthday is rather overshadowed by his nan's funeral I wanted to make an effort. I left her with my parents, some EBM and a syringe (I always fed Tink top-ups or if she was babysat with a syringe and we did well on it) she took 35ml and seemed happy with the amount of food, but she was unsettled and not happy with not having me!
I'm now worried about how she will cope all day. There is plenty of milk available for my dad to give her but I'm worried about her not settling with not having the real thing. She had a cup feed once in hospital (she was on a Bili-Bed and because she feeds through the night she wouldn't settle back in it after a feed), took 50ml and settled for three hours, I have a cup here too.
There are no bottles here and I'm not really happy to give her a bottle. Any advice on what we (or my dad) do tomorrow? Just feed and cuddle her to settle her or something else?