28 weeker finally home after 2 months in NICU

Hi r/NICUParents!We brought our son home yesterday at exactly 2 months since his birth. This was such an amazing day, but it was a tough first night. Ben was born at 28 weeks and he came home at 37 weeks. The day of his discharge he had to have an eye exam which we weren’t thrilled about the timing, but we were just thankful to bring him home. We got home and he was so alert and did fine with his first couple of feedings. He was actually acting very hungry so we allowed him to breastfeed a little longer than usual. He was still so alert after his feeding which was unusual because he normally would fall asleep while holding after his feedings like he did in the NICU. This baby would not sleep from the time he came home at 1:00pm-12:00am. We tried rocking him and we held him swaddled this entire time. During one of his bottle feedings he starts crying without being able to console him. We think he just hit a point of exhaustion and it caused his body to go into stress. He was shaking while crying harder than we have heard. Luckily, after his 11:30pm feeding he did fall asleep and he has been asleep since. I’ll need to wake him soon to feed him so he doesn’t go longer than 4 hours between feeds. I just feel so bad that we weren’t able to get him to sleep for so long. I know it was probably just the new environment and over stimulation paired with the post eye exam. Has anyone else experienced this? I’m curious to hear how some of your first nights home were after the NICU for those of you that have babies that have graduated. Thank you for any insight and for sharing your experience if you can! I hope he is able to start feeding and sleeping normally soon! via /r/NICUParents https://ift.tt/419xURz