The Eating Dance.
>> Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Yesterday Adelyn decided that she didn't feel like drinking milk anymore (I'd get tired of it, too). I tried to feed her every 30 minutes and sometimes she'd take down an ounce, sometimes she'd look at me in disgust, and every now and then she'd flash that huge, toothless grin that makes a day long, 30-minute interval feeding schedule worth it.
I called the doctor yesterday and was told that as long as she's producing enough wet diapers I didn't need to be immediately alarmed. At three a.m., though, she started screaming while eating, and my new-mom instinctual panic went into overdrive.
This morning she's doing a little better; she ate an entire four ounce bottle this morning IN ONE SITTING.
(So much unused formula went down the drain yesterday; so many bottles were washed and so many spit-up covered clothes laundered I realized for the umpteenth time that I wish I could still breastfeed.)
A visit to the doctor might still be in order today.
2 comments:
Our baby used to do this sometimes, a little nursing/eating strike. I could never tell is she was fighting a little bug or was just finishing up a growth spurt and wasn't as hungry. It can be so stressful! Hang in there!
My daughter ate like a champ through the first two and a half months. After that, she just decided each day how much she wanted to eat. I worried at first that she wasn't getting much to eat and wouldn't grow, or worse yet, she'd get dehydrated. Neither ever happened. She just decided that she could live without milk, mostly. She really loves FOOD. I second Rachel, hang in there. You'll know when something's wrong. You're a mom.
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