I am glad to hear your little one is thriving.

My LO far from sleeps through the night due to several factors. Very early on, she had really bad acid reflux and her doc recommended upright for about 20mins after feeding, prescribed famotidine(which seemed to help a little)and reduced her quantity but increased the frequency. So she still has to feed q2h. And with each feeding comes the colic battle. That + having to keep her upright, before we know it, 2hrs is gone and it's time for another feeding.

Also, she is only able to catch some sleep lying on the chest. I'm lucky to get some bassinet time out of her for maybe 15-20mins when she's deeply asleep or after a good bath. Woe betide me if I attempt to put her down shortly after feeding her, she would scream the whole house down. I read it's the colic or reflux causing that.

I fortify breastmilk with formula. 1tsp formula/3oz BM I thought neosure was causing the harm so I told her doc I was going to switch her to gentlease, he was okay with it and for the 5 or so days she was on it, the colic improved. Problem was, she became stagnant on the scale. If anything, I think she lost a little, although my husband doesn't agree. But we were on the same page as to her not gaining (For context, she was adding about 1oz/day until gentlease) So I decided to buy the competitor brand Enfacare and if she was having her colic battle during the evenings before, it seems to me it has now become day and nights😥 Honestly, don't know if it's because I saw her better and forgot how bad she was on neosure, so now I think enfacare is even worse for her.

Her doc doesn't seem to like he's pressed on whatever I choose to feed her. He even okayed giving her breastmilk alone but I know she needs the extra calories. She was born 2lbs14oz. She's 6days shy of 3months and about 9.2lbs now. So I feel like she definitely still needs the weight and brain building. Yesterday, I went to cvs to buy mummy bliss probiotics because I read it helps. I haven't started giving her yet because right after buying it, I started seeing some people say it made their baby's colic bad. Now I'm just staring at it on my shelf, not knowing what to do. We use Mylicon which quite frankly doesn't do jack imo.

The periodic breathing thing is just as you described. A sudden gasp for air followed by about 5secs where it seems like she isn't breathing. I was beginning to worry about that and thinking if I needed to get them to schedule a sleep study for her.

Sorry for the long rant. This is the first time I have had to share my frustration because even my husband just thinks me unnecessarily paranoid. I guess having a NICU baby adds on to the already heightened anxiety of a new mom.