1st Night on the Pump...

Our first night with the feeding pump was nothing short of an epic fail. At first it seemed like things were going pretty great. Ollie went to bed at 8:00, woke up for a little while at 11:00 but I was able to just pat his back to get him back to sleep. Then comes 1:00am. NIGHTMARE time. It was a total freaking disaster. He was crying, flipping out, wouldn't go back to sleep. I patted his back for an hour, let him cry for 30 minutes...still he wouldn't sleep. I went back into Oliver's room to try patting him again, and I moved him down in his bed, and this kid is soaked. I checked the site where it inserts into the gtube, dry! I looked to make sure it was still connected, yup! The only thing I could think of was he peed out of his diaper even though the diaper wasn't soaked. Things can poke out so maybe thats what happened. I change him, change his bed, Todd is up at this point trying to help me console him. Todd swears Ollie is hungry, but I think it can't be possible because hes been on a continuous feed. NO WAY should he be hungry, but I made him a 2oz bottle anyways. Drinks it like he IS, indeed, starving. Finally he calms down, Todd rocks him for a little bit...put him down wide awake, and he falls back to sleep on his own, no issue. I decided that at 3am, I was done with the pump, we weren't going to hook him up for the rest of the night. The past 2 hours were horrible. We weren't sure if it was the pump bothering him, if the continuous feed is what made him pee SOO much. Everything was SATURATED!

This morning, I'm breaking down the pump, changing the bag and the tubes and I noticed the connector tube is dry...odd...but okay maybe it went dry because we disconnected the feed. Then I'm flushing/cleaning the connector tube and I saw the problem...the stupid medicine cap opened up. So this continuous feed wasn't feeding Oliver, it was feeding his bed. No wonder the bed was soaked! And yes, Todd was right, Ollie was hungry. I don't know when that cap opened up but it had to be around 1:00. Tonight, that medicine cap will be TAPED DOWN.

Ridiculous. Seriously it wasn't too funny in the middle of the night, but now I think its a little funny. But just a little....