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Name: Rachel
Country: United States
Birthday: 10/25/1984
Gender: Female
Interests: Christ, Adam (seriously one of the most amazing guys on the planet =), my family and friends, Theatre, Music, happy moments, key changes, rain, smiles, school, learning, cloudy days, loving, caring...ya.
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Occupation: Case Reviewer! www.gilardi.com
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| I think that the "Battle for Feeding Time" will be never ending with this kid. One day things seem to be going great, then the next two days become a fight each time I sit down to nurse. Most of the time she'll nurse very well in the middle of the night, and less well her first feeding in the morning. After that it's all up in the air.
*sigh* I hope our next baby doesn't have nursing problems. I'll bet he'll be a champion breastfeeder and instead will never sleep! Toddlerhood come soon!
Today I gave money to a begger on the side of the road. After I gave her the few dollars that I had on me, I said "best of luck" and rolled up my window to wait for the green light. I felt so awful in that moment. How could I say "best of luck" when I know that "luck" will have nothing to do with her life situation? I should have said "God Bless" or "Jesus loves you" or something like that. But to say that just seems so trite. Is there anything that I could have said that would have been better?
On a lighter but much more disgusting note - Nikole and I had our first diaper blow out in public today. We were in the car after her doctor's appointment (just to be weighed - 11lbs 5oz!) getting ready to go from there to Target when I realized that she needed a diaper change. It was the worst! The process took close to ten minutes and required about five or six baby whipes and a new change of clothes. I ended up just throwing out the onesie she was wearing rather than trying to clean it - it was that bad. According to my mother, I'll have many more experiences just like this. ... yay for babies!
And with that, I'll say goodnight.
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| I'm asking myself whether I want to continue blogging every day, when it seems that all I have to say is "today went ok..." or something of the sort. That being the case, unless I hear a massive outcry to the contrary, I think I'll blog a little less often about the rigors of weaning Nikole from the bottle.
And that's all for tonight. I'm super tired and can't wait to hit the sack. That is, after I do my Bible study.
Quote of the day: "Did you just compare my Lord and Savior to a tiny top hat? He sure did baby, go get him!"
Name that show.
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| I'm asking myself whether I want to continue blogging every day, when it seems that all I have to say is "today went ok..." or something of the sort. That being the case, unless I hear a massive outcry to the contrary, I think I'll blog a little less often about the rigors of weaning Nikole from the bottle.
And that's all for tonight. I'm super tired and can't wait to hit the sack. That is, after I do my Bible study.
Quote of the day: "Did you just compare my Lord and Savior to a tiny top hat? He sure did baby, go get him!"
Name that show.
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| We did pretty well today. On the downside, she didn't eat very often - that's my fault though. I fed her around 6 then again at 9:30ish. Our lunch out with family unfortunately pushed her next feeding off until around 2. Oddly, this was the one feeding of the day that she fought the most. I would have thought that she'd be so hungry that she would immediately nurse, but instead she cried and fussed. She then went to sleep for almost three hours! I was surprised that she could sleep so long in the middle of the day after eating so little. Thankfully, she ate after her nap and then again right before bed (I pushed her bedtime from 8 to 9 due to her long afternoon nap), so I'm fairly certain that she had enough today.
Speaking of eating enough - I'm not doing so well on my eating habits. I've been skipping more meals lately, and when I do eat, it's not been the most nutritious food. I've also not been drinking nearly enough water. I've got to get on that.
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| One week into our efforts, and our little girl is doing fairly well. She's had two long nights of sleep (almost 11 hours for each!), and has come to the point of being able to nurse without fussing most of the time.
Unfortunately, I think with the two steps forward that we took this week, we took one step back by giving her a bottle while I was at the theater today. She drank about five ounces then took a long nap. I'm hoping that she doesn't remember how nice and easy that was and revert back to crying while nursing.
I re-visited an old trick that one of the nurses taught me in the hospital today: the "bait and switch". In her bedtime feeding, Nikole fought nursing to the point where I just stopped, changed and swaddled her, and then began to rock her to sleep. After a few minutes, she had settled down quite a bit and was sucking contentedly on the pacifier. I then removed the pacifier and offered her the breast. To my surprise, she took to it right away and proceeded to nurse on both sides before going to sleep. Score!
On a side note: Nikole is an outstanding restaurant baby! We have taken her out with us multiple times, and 99% of the time we made it through the experience with no crying at all. This makes me so happy!
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