Feeding Katie Rose
Katie and Bottle, photo by Harold Davis.
Katie Rose is sneaking up on five pounds. She is doing so well. A couple of days ago, on her first try, she “got” bottle feeding. She still needs to get most of her calories from her stomach tube, but this will change over time.
When Phyllis comes to visit the NICU these days, first there’s a bit of breast feeding, then Katie gets a bottle. With stops along the way for burping, and micro naps for Katie Rose so she has the strength to keep feeding. With wonderful baby grunting and burbling noises as Katie Rose progresses.
July 17th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
[...] lemons, by mistake I shot the lightbox images at a high ISO. (I hadn’t reset the camera from photographing Katie Rose in the NICU.) I processed the high ISO captures for noise reduction and extreme smoothness, which partly [...]
July 20th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
[...] is now without tubes, not all the time, but when she is feeding, and for hours at a stretch. Partly, she’s engineered this herself, by repeatedly pulling the [...]
July 30th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
[...] is a photo of one of the small, plastic bottles used to feed Katie Rose her fortified breast milk. It’s amazing how photography can make mundane objects magical. [...]