Things Eden is doing lately:
- Cutting teeth- two through (on top!) with 2-3 on the way.
- Eating with the fam at the table in her high chair.
- Yelling for attention. Loudly. With arms and legs locked straight with each exerted sound.
- Napping and sleeping quite nicely, except at church.
- Babbling and drooling.
- Drinking exclusively from a bottle. She has been fully weened for about a week and sippy cups make her very mad.
- Growing! At her doc. appointment last week she was in the 75th percentile for weight, height and head circumference. "The picture of baby health," quoth the pediatrician.
- Mesmorizing oncomers with fleshy cheeks and thighs.
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What made you decide to stop nursing? I have had thoughts of quiting myself but feel I should go for a little while longer. I love nursing for the obvious reasons, it's cheaper and healthy. But man I love the benefits of a bottle! I feel like nursing is holding me back from losing the little bit of weight I still need to lose and I crave sugar like crazy when I'm nursing. It's kinda a hard decision to make.
Danielle- It was a combination of factors that led up to the big ween. My body has a strong physiological reaction to nursing - nausea and anxiety - that I have struggled through with all three babies. It was a little worse this time. And I was having a hard time kicking the blues. I was seriously starting to wonder if I was okay or if I needed to seek some professional aide and the first clear thought (inspiration) that lit upon my hormone riddled brain was that I should ween Eden first and then see how I was feeling. All kinds of clouds started lifting as we made the transition.
It is a hard decision to make. Eden isn't a cuddler at all, and nursing was pretty much the only chance I got. I miss that. And formula isn't cheap... But in our case, I think our whole family has benefited more from Eden weening than Eden would have benefited from more nursing.
I'm glad to hear the weening has helped you and your family! The fleshly thigh pictures are adorable!! (and hilarious) :)
Funny how we are in the same boat. baby ryan is cutting teeth too. Legs and arms locked and lots of loud cries of pain mixed with slobber bubbles and all. Its hard but worth it to see them grow and move into solid foods. Im glad you went with your intuitions and weened eden to a bottle. Im still nursing Ryan but it has been an emotional rollercoaster and struggle the whole time, considering my incision gone wrong and trying to recover and now battling on going thrush and breast infections. I find my pride clouds my mind from reality and i continue to plug onward. I agree a 100% i dont want to loose that one on one time with baby im afriad if i bottle feed then i will never make time to hold baby like i do now. but sometimes it just comes down to the result of happy baby and most important happy mom. if mom aint happy nobody's happy right. and now that hes teething its causing all kinds of infections and block ducts with him not feeling well. i keep telling myself when is enough. i have set a goal to at least make it to the end of the school year maybe by then these issues will be reolved. youre a great example to me Jesse and I ran into your post when I needed it the most. hey that ryhmed. breastmilk or formula what matters most is that the family runs smooth physicaly, mentally and spiritualy. we're never in it alone all us moms suffer together in this crazy beautiful role in moherhood. im so glad you are feeling better and finding mor strength the battle the daily ups and downs. eden is adorable in every wich way. good job Momma
Oh, she is so cute!!! Those little chubby legs and arms are so huggable!!!!
Love to you all!
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