Over the first weekend that we had Ellie home I noticed a couple of sores coming up in her mouth. They looked like little infected scabs and I was worried that she would get sick from them and end up back in the hospital.
I asked the midwife who did our home visit on the Monday what she thought, and she suggested we see our GP, just to rule out anything serious. So that's what we did. I managed to get an appointment with Doctor Naiker on Tuesday and he gave her a general checkup.
His opinion was that they were harmless, and just a result of the bottle rubbing in her mouth. There was nothing we could do for them but it should stop happening as her mouth got more accustomed to the bottle.
This was one of many little issues that had started popping up since we'd brought her home. The exposed piece of gum had also been bleeding a lot, which we put down to both the bottle and her low haemaglobin levels. All we could do was keep rubbing papaw cream on before each feed and hope it got better.
In the short time that Ellie had been feeding she had already become very fussy about which side of her mouth she would take her bottle in. This meant that her gum was starting to shift one way. I was really worried that this would affect how good her repair would be, I didn't want to make things harder for her.
We tried to push her to feed on the other side, and after a bit of fighting she would accept it, but we noticed this made her wind worse. It was a bit of a catch 22. A crooked gum or wind pains that lasted forever? I chose the crooked gum. We still push the other side when we can, but I just have to trust that Doctor Kimble will do the best he can possibly do with whatever he's faced with.
The last of the problems we ran in to over the weekend was sticky eyes. She'd had these in the hospital as well, and while I knew it was normal for them to have sticky eyes for a little while after birth I thought two weeks wad probably too long. The midwife thought it may have been being caused by her open palate, and said just to keep cleaning them.
We were still struggling to get any sort of routine. She seemed to have a bit of day/night confusion, and would sleep all day and then stay awake all night. She also had really horrible hours betwern about 5pm and 10pm, where she would scream continuously and arch her back in pain. I had no idea what was causing this, I just hoped it would stop soon!
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