It changes day to day. When things go badly I need to remember that the next day will probably go differently. She has started to feed more contentedly at the breast, now going some feedings without requesting or requiring supplementation after. Other times, she’s so eager for food she won’t hold her latch so we …
She is becoming a big girl!! In the past few days she has started to talk with us more, making longer series of sounds. Her smiles have increased, and her amount of awake time. When awake she is aware and content, looking around, smiling, sucking her fist or waving her arms or just observing. She …
Sometimes, she latches well for nursing and nurses long. As she winds down her eyes close and there are more pauses between rounds of sucking. And at the very end she suddenly picks up her vigour, sucking intensely and circling her head around, still hanging on tightly. Then in a final gesture she pops her …
Alya is almost 2 months old, and my milk supply has still not picked up. We’ve been supplementing since around 3 weeks, and the amount we give her has increased steadily. Though I know the risks of supplementing for decreasing milk supply, her health dictated supplementation after her weight started to decline and I continued …
Life with baby has been busy. Nursing has been incredibly time consuming, and we basically hold her all the time when she’s not nursing (with some time in a chair etc.) so opportunities to type are limited. I haven’t written much more about feeding her, partly because of this, but also because it has been …
Some of the names we use for our sweet girl: Munchkin, Munchy, Munchybadoodle, Pumpkin, Muffin, Pumpkin Muffin, Muffy, Muff-Muff, Stretch, Rumble-bum, Little Girl. Precede any of these with “little” or “sweet” for other variations. She is growing so much! She’s suddenly outgrown so many of her clothes and is getting pudgy and dimply all over. …
As a result of supplementing with formula because of my poorly managed milk supply, my baby now is constipated and quite a bit less smiley and happy than she was just a few days ago. Her poops are bigger and smelly. This sucks. Just more motivation to increase my milk supply. It will happen. Let …
There’s nothing like feeding my baby formula to motivate me to produce more milk. We had to start supplementing with formula yesterday as we ran out of donated milk and she needs more food to maintain weight, much less gain. Aside from the work and the cost, the health implications are frustrating: poor little girl …
This is our baby the morning of her birth. I can’t believe how she’s changed since then! Still the sweetest, though.
I’m wearing our baby on my chest right now – her soft warm body asleep on me. I am so in love with her! She has a soft baby voice and big dark expressive eyes. She smiles and crinkles her eyes up and my heart melts! She’s a stretchy little girl, her arms up and …