The other BIG BIG news is that she sucked her thumb for real today! She had her whole thumb in her mouth - twice - over at Aunt Dee's. This is great (even though we'll probably be trying to wean her from this in a few years) because it means she has a nice way to self-soothe when needed.
Alsp, we've made some interesting discoveries regarding her taking bottles. Ever since she took her first two bottles, she hasn't taken them again since. Yesterday, Jim tried to feed her a bottle again and the first thing we discovered was that the milk was streaming out of the nipple really fast. This, we have finally figured out, is because the nipple expands when heated so the milk comes out quicker. The other thing we discovered is that our fridge was too warm and the milk I was pumping was going bad too fast. Poor kid was being fed sour milk from bottles that were streaming it down her throat - no wonder she didn't want it!! This is good (because it's likely to be eventually solved) and we have dumped all the old milk, turned the temp on the fridge up and cleaned and sterlizied all the the bottles and nipples. We'll try again today with fresh milk and clean bottles whose nipples haven't been heated up too much. It's all a big learning process... Thankfully - Sophia is extremely patient with us when it comes to all this stuff.
Thank you to everyone for your calls and texts and cards wishing me a Happy Mother's Day! And Happy Mother's Day to all the wonderful moms out there! We are so blessed to have you all in our lives and love you very much!
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Hi ^_^ You don't know me, I found your blog on google doing research on The Birth Center (I'm overdue and giving birth there any day now) but I wanted to recomend the Adiri bottles if you hadn't looked into them at all. They're great for breastfed babies =)
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