35 week old feeding

[mum2b56]

How long did it take your 35 week old to feed properly on his own? He’s just started latching and feeding in last couple days but only for 5/10 minutes at a time so still needs help feeding through a tube. It’s the only thing stopping us going home

My twins were born at 35+1. One had a complex medical situation so not really relevant but the other only needed help feeding - we took him home at 17 days old with his tube still in place. He couldn’t latch properly despite my best efforts - after a few days at home trying to feed him, having to top up every feed via his tube, struggling with testing that his tube was in properly, pumping etc I started bottle feeding and we were able to lose the tube after a few days.

My daughter "got" feeding just shy of 36 weeks. But when it really clicked she progressed rapidly- tube was out 24h later, we were home 48 hrs later.