Posts Tagged ‘4_months’
Cereal
I decided not to listen to Will’s doctor, and I started him on cereal tonight. He is only a week from being 4 months. I am still looking for a pen, so I can write this down. He did awesome. No choking at all. There is a couple of reasons why I did it. First, his doctor had me giving it to him in his bottle, so he does have some experience with it. Second, he wants 6 ounces. However, everything I give him after the first 4 ounces, he throws up and is miserable. I am hoping that this will help him not throw up as much. It didn’t work tonight, but I am sure it takes a little bit of time. Here are a couple of pictures that I took:
I quit
AKA I feel like a bad mommy.
Guilt will do that to you. As many of you know, we had problems getting Will to latch on, and he got jaundice. Instead of messing around, I did what I did with Madison and pumped exclusively. I have been doing that since he was born. We are at the point that he is outdrinking what I can pump, and I had been supplementing my frozen milk. Last night, I did an inventory on the milk and realized that I have less than a weeks worth of milk left, so we needed to make some decisions. That is where my guilt comes into play.
I pumped with Madison till she was 4 months old. I quit because I hated it. I couldn’t get my supply to reach her demand. I resented her. I resented doing. I figured it was time to quit. I am not at that point (yet). However, we are going to Green Bay next weekend, and if we are going to introduce formula, I need to do it at home. Bill wanted me to quit pumping a month ago. I am not sleeping, and I am crabby all the time. I also can’t get anything done during the day due to me having to pump all the time.
So I am giving in and feeling pretty guilty about it. I will be able to spend more time with my children by giving this up. We gave Will some formula this morning, and he didn’t seem to mind. So why do I feel so bad?
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