Happy Baby

This weekend we attended the FSA Conference.
More on that later on my Adoption Blog.

Andrea (Avery's Adoptive mom),

and I were able to spend most of the time together.

SO much fun.

I love her. She is seriously such a good friend.

On Friday we went to lunch at Chili's

and we were talking about Kali's problems with sleeping and puking.

She still wasn't sleeping through the night and I starting worrying that I was doing something wrong.
I feel like such a terrible mom when my baby doesn't seem to be progressing at all!

Then,

Andrea started telling me about things she tried with Avery.

She said that Avery would always act starving when she was done feeding her a bottle,

so she started feeding her more than what she usually did,

and she ate the whole thing and would be so much better.

I've also had some people recommend putting rice cereal in her bottle.

Andrea recommended that too.

I've been thinking about doing that for a while, but never acted on it because I've been worried that she's too young.

I feed Kali a bottle at night

and I've been doing that for a while now.

so last night, I finally decided to just try what others have been recommending for a while.

First,

I wanted to make sure she liked the cereal before I ruined a perfectly good bottle with it.

I made some,

and gave her some on a spoon.

My heavens,

it was like I couldn't give it to her fast enough.

She would take some and immediately want more and start crying because I wasn't giving it to her fast enough.

Poor girl acted like we were starving her to death!

It was then that I concluded what I've always suspected...

she is DEFINITELY her fathers daughter! Especially when it comes to eating food.

haha

So I just put it all in a bottle with formula so that she COULD get it fast enough.

But I also added two more ounces of formula.

I usually give her 2 ounces at night, but this time I gave her 4

She scarffed that sucker down!

and finished that thing way fast.

Then I gave her the Prevacid that we had prescribed for her

and burped her.

She only threw up a teeny bit!

YAY!

Then,

came the scary part.

Whenever we would put her to bed,

she would scream her head off until she fell asleep.

That is so hard for both of us.

We would take turns going in there and putting her binky in her mouth,

but it's so hard when your baby cries. seriously.

So,

I laid her in her crib and put her binky in her mouth.

She didn't make a PEEP.

She was fine and fell asleep without even crying!

I was so happy.

I was hoping it would help her sleep all the way through the night.

we got her to bed around 10:30.

She slept until...

6:30!!

Eight hours!!

I couldn't believe it.

Then all day long today she was the happiest baby on the block and hardly even cried.

I've been feeding her bottles all day because of how well it turned out last night.

and she has loved it.

The hardest part of this all is that I'm greatly greatly considering just cutting off breastfeeding completely.

That's hard for me because I really really wanted to breastfeed until she was at least six months old because,

1. because it's SOO much more convenient when we're out and about to just have it right there and not have to run and make a bottle while she's screaming her head off

and

2. It's cheaper.

I thought about maybe pumping and giving her those bottles,

but I think that would be even MORE inconvenient than making a bottle and PLUS,

I am pretty sure she is allergic to something I'm eating and quite frankly I can't figure out what!

She throws up so much less when I feed her a bottle even when it doesn't have cereal in it.

Meh.

So that's hard for me and I get a little emotional every time I think about stopping.

haha I'm pathetic.

But seriously,

I do love breastfeeding. That might sound weird but I really do.

I know some women have a hard time,

but I'm not one of them so I feel like I'm letting it all go to waste.

I'm just hoping that our next baby doesn't have such problems.

Because I think I would be able to do it for a while if they took it well.

Anyway,

enough with my rambling.

I just had to say it.

She is already SUCH a different baby and it's only been 24 hours!

I just put her to bed again and tonight went even better than last night!

She fell asleep while I was feeding her so she didn't even finish her bottle

(I hope that still means she will sleep through the night)

and she didn't wake up at all when I put her in her crib.

I almost cried of joy.

haha.

I love my baby girl so much!

I'm so glad I figured out what was wrong with her.

I don't know why it took me so long!

Of COURSE she was just still hungry.

She IS her fathers daughter.