July 30, 2008 (day thirty five)
Andy was very cranky from 9pm-midnight last night, and he exhausted both Gabe and I at night as he always does. I don't know why this is his rough time of day, but it is and always has been. I guess we should just get used to it for the time being.
Andy was up every other hour last night – 5 feeds in 1 night – what is up with that?! It was the night with the most feeds in his whole life. He must be having a growth spurt! I read today (online) that formula fed babies should be eating more per feed, but having less feeds throughout the day as the formula takes longer them to digest. But that isn't the case with Andy at all. He ate way less often with the boob. He must be growing right now and that is why he feeds every other hour. I just wish he didn't do it at night. It won't last forever though... right???
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Here is another good one...
http://www.babble.com/content/articles/features/dispatches/tuttle/Milk-Money-Is-breastfeeding-really-cheaper-than-formula-Not-always/
Milk Money - Is breastfeeding really cheaper than formula? Not always.
by Kate Tuttle
July 7, 2008
You hear it all the time: one of the reasons to choose breastfeeding over formula, in addition to all the well-known health advantages, is that it's free. No need to stockpile expensive formula, bottles, and so forth. You can meet your baby's nutritional needs, for the first six months at least, with zero economic outlay. Just think of how much more you can deposit into junior's college fund!
But if breastfeeding's so cheap, why do so many women spend so much money doing it? Between the lactation consultants, nursing bras and tanks, Boppy pillows with vintage cloth covers from Etsy, and a hospital-grade breast pump for when mama goes back to work, a nursing mother can end up spending a small fortune. And that's not even counting the financial hit involved in taking time away from work or negotiating a schedule that allows for nursing or pump breaks. If breastfeeding's so cheap, why do so many women spend so much money doing it? Every mother is different, and so is every baby. So it's impossible to quantify the expenses of the average nursing or bottle-feeding mother: and many, many women do both. But a little research and a handy chart can provide ballpark figures for just how much each option costs.
Milk Money - Is breastfeeding really cheaper than formula? Not always.
by Kate Tuttle
July 7, 2008
You hear it all the time: one of the reasons to choose breastfeeding over formula, in addition to all the well-known health advantages, is that it's free. No need to stockpile expensive formula, bottles, and so forth. You can meet your baby's nutritional needs, for the first six months at least, with zero economic outlay. Just think of how much more you can deposit into junior's college fund!
But if breastfeeding's so cheap, why do so many women spend so much money doing it? Between the lactation consultants, nursing bras and tanks, Boppy pillows with vintage cloth covers from Etsy, and a hospital-grade breast pump for when mama goes back to work, a nursing mother can end up spending a small fortune. And that's not even counting the financial hit involved in taking time away from work or negotiating a schedule that allows for nursing or pump breaks. If breastfeeding's so cheap, why do so many women spend so much money doing it? Every mother is different, and so is every baby. So it's impossible to quantify the expenses of the average nursing or bottle-feeding mother: and many, many women do both. But a little research and a handy chart can provide ballpark figures for just how much each option costs.
A very good article on breastfeeding VS formula feeding...
The Breastfeeding Conspiracy
~Believe it or not, formula isn't poison.~
by Marjorie Ingall
December 11, 2006
When my daughter Josie was a few weeks old, I started going to a support group for new moms. Most of us looked like we hadn't slept since the Carter administration. Epic tales were sung of colicky infants, dread about returning to work, exhaustion so severe it caused hallucinations. (I personally remember watching the bathroom rug crawl across the floor like a flattened Muppet.) Many of us cried over our struggles with breastfeeding: Plugged milk ducts, engorgement, nipples so thrashed and bloody they looked like raw hamburger, babies who couldn't latch on and kept losing weight. But some group members, those who'd had no problems nursing, kept insisting that we simply needed to try harder. Call a different lactation consultant. Use nipple cream. Butch up. Didn't we want what was best for our babies?
Exclusive breastfeeding is tough, and the temptation to give up is strong. Formula companies pimp their products, tucking bottles into the going-home bags of brand-new moms as they're released from the hospital, sending coupons to their homes, sponsoring medical guides and filling parenting magazines with ads. But breastfeeding advocates push hard too. Think of last year's public health campaign that compared not-breastfeeding to riding a mechanical bull while pregnant. In my ultrasound doc's office, there was a big poster headlined "THE TOP 12 REASONS TO BREASTFEED." The reasons included "Your baby will be smarter" and "You will lose weight faster."
Well, look, there's little doubt that breast is best, if you can manage it. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends breastfeeding for a year. Breastfed babies have been shown to have less diarrhea and fewer colds and ear infections than formula-fed babies. Studies indicate that they're less likely to die of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or develop lymphoma later in life. (More on these studies later.) Breastfeeding is also free and super-portable, whereas formula can cost from $1,000 to $2,400 a year. Given the vitriol aimed at formula-feeding mothers, in online forums and on the street, one might suspect formula was pure poison.
But given the vitriol aimed at formula-feeding mothers, in online forums and on the street, one might suspect formula was pure poison. Jill Davidson, thirty-four, of Providence, RI, an educational consultant, was the mother of a newborn when she was invited to speak at a conference in Chicago. She was able to fly her mother from Connecticut to stay with her and care for the baby. Davidson pumped in her hotel room, then handed the baby off to her mother to feed. As her sixty-something mother sat in the hotel lobby feeding the baby, a woman passing by hissed, "Shame on you! You should be breastfeeding that baby!" That's been the tenor of the breastfeeding discussion in recent years: women (even menopausal ones!) who don't do it must be either ignorant or abusive.
But women formula-feed for many different reasons. Some have medical issues, like Ginny Falk, whose daughter had a cleft palate. Some are viscerally disgusted by nursing, like my friend Judith. Some have jobs that are incompatible with nursing or pumping, like Debra Siegel, thirty, a marketing executive in Los Angeles. She worked in "a warehouse full of men. I didn't have an office; I'd have had to pump in the bathroom. And I needed the job; my husband was unemployed at the time." For Debra, returning to work was hard enough. Adding the stress of breastfeeding felt impossible. "I felt suicidal having to leave my baby, but I had no choice," she says. "I was the sole support of my family. So I decided not to even try to breastfeed. I'd talked to a lot of people and knew it took a while to get into a groove, and since I had to go back to work, I didn't want to spend my entire maternity leave feeling panicked and miserable. But as I got closer to my due date, people got more and more aggressive telling me I was selfish."
Click here to see the whole article... http://www.babble.com/content/articles/features/dispatches/ingall/index.aspx
~Believe it or not, formula isn't poison.~
by Marjorie Ingall
December 11, 2006
When my daughter Josie was a few weeks old, I started going to a support group for new moms. Most of us looked like we hadn't slept since the Carter administration. Epic tales were sung of colicky infants, dread about returning to work, exhaustion so severe it caused hallucinations. (I personally remember watching the bathroom rug crawl across the floor like a flattened Muppet.) Many of us cried over our struggles with breastfeeding: Plugged milk ducts, engorgement, nipples so thrashed and bloody they looked like raw hamburger, babies who couldn't latch on and kept losing weight. But some group members, those who'd had no problems nursing, kept insisting that we simply needed to try harder. Call a different lactation consultant. Use nipple cream. Butch up. Didn't we want what was best for our babies?
Exclusive breastfeeding is tough, and the temptation to give up is strong. Formula companies pimp their products, tucking bottles into the going-home bags of brand-new moms as they're released from the hospital, sending coupons to their homes, sponsoring medical guides and filling parenting magazines with ads. But breastfeeding advocates push hard too. Think of last year's public health campaign that compared not-breastfeeding to riding a mechanical bull while pregnant. In my ultrasound doc's office, there was a big poster headlined "THE TOP 12 REASONS TO BREASTFEED." The reasons included "Your baby will be smarter" and "You will lose weight faster."
Well, look, there's little doubt that breast is best, if you can manage it. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends breastfeeding for a year. Breastfed babies have been shown to have less diarrhea and fewer colds and ear infections than formula-fed babies. Studies indicate that they're less likely to die of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or develop lymphoma later in life. (More on these studies later.) Breastfeeding is also free and super-portable, whereas formula can cost from $1,000 to $2,400 a year. Given the vitriol aimed at formula-feeding mothers, in online forums and on the street, one might suspect formula was pure poison.
But given the vitriol aimed at formula-feeding mothers, in online forums and on the street, one might suspect formula was pure poison. Jill Davidson, thirty-four, of Providence, RI, an educational consultant, was the mother of a newborn when she was invited to speak at a conference in Chicago. She was able to fly her mother from Connecticut to stay with her and care for the baby. Davidson pumped in her hotel room, then handed the baby off to her mother to feed. As her sixty-something mother sat in the hotel lobby feeding the baby, a woman passing by hissed, "Shame on you! You should be breastfeeding that baby!" That's been the tenor of the breastfeeding discussion in recent years: women (even menopausal ones!) who don't do it must be either ignorant or abusive.
But women formula-feed for many different reasons. Some have medical issues, like Ginny Falk, whose daughter had a cleft palate. Some are viscerally disgusted by nursing, like my friend Judith. Some have jobs that are incompatible with nursing or pumping, like Debra Siegel, thirty, a marketing executive in Los Angeles. She worked in "a warehouse full of men. I didn't have an office; I'd have had to pump in the bathroom. And I needed the job; my husband was unemployed at the time." For Debra, returning to work was hard enough. Adding the stress of breastfeeding felt impossible. "I felt suicidal having to leave my baby, but I had no choice," she says. "I was the sole support of my family. So I decided not to even try to breastfeed. I'd talked to a lot of people and knew it took a while to get into a groove, and since I had to go back to work, I didn't want to spend my entire maternity leave feeling panicked and miserable. But as I got closer to my due date, people got more and more aggressive telling me I was selfish."
Click here to see the whole article... http://www.babble.com/content/articles/features/dispatches/ingall/index.aspx
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
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Our feeding problems are over!
Andy has colic really bad for his first 3 weeks of life. So Gabe and I decided to do an experiment. We formula fed Andy for 2 days and 2 nights. First we gave him Good Start (the formual we had in teh house), and then we switched to Similac Alimentum (for babies with food allergic and lactose intolerance - specifically made for colicy, fussy, gassy babies). And Andy was like a new kid - he was happy and smiling, and slept well too! So on the third day we re-introduced the boob. First off, I wanted to see if he would take the boob OK again, and secondly we wanted to see what happened to him tummy/mood when we switched back. And cranky old Andy came back. But now we could tell that his cries weren't just fussy cries, but cries of pain. We could tell 
that he was having some sort of bad reaction to my milk. So after only 2 breastfeeds that day we switched back to Alimentum for the rest of that day, that night, and the next day (which is today). Andy happy Andy is back. So I am done breastfeeding.
I have a lot of food allergies myself and struggle with lactose intolerance, so we don't know what it is that is affecting Andy's tummy, but our family Doctor is almost 100% sure than Andy has at least 1 food allergy. We will have to be very careful when introducing foods to him in 5 months.
Since switching to formula, we have heard a few stories from friends about their colicky babies, and how formaula (this one particularly) helped them as well. I cried myself to sleep the first night we fed Andy formual and he was happy. I had a feeling that taking him off the boob would help him out, and I didn't want to give up breastfeeding. But after listening to him scream all day when we re-introduced the boob, and watching him struggle to pass gas, as he turned red and cried for hours was not worth it. I am sacrificing a really big thing here - I didn't get to breastfeed Owen either, and I thought I would get to breastfeed Andy longer than just one month. But it isn't meant to be. So I am done. And I am OK with that. Andy is a happy baby now (he even is smiling now and it just melts my heart!). I am sad for what I had to give up, but I would give up so much more to make sure my babies aren't in pain.
If anyone out there is struggling with a colicky baby, I suggest trying Similac Alimentium. It has worked wonders inour house!
that he was having some sort of bad reaction to my milk. So after only 2 breastfeeds that day we switched back to Alimentum for the rest of that day, that night, and the next day (which is today). Andy happy Andy is back. So I am done breastfeeding.I have a lot of food allergies myself and struggle with lactose intolerance, so we don't know what it is that is affecting Andy's tummy, but our family Doctor is almost 100% sure than Andy has at least 1 food allergy. We will have to be very careful when introducing foods to him in 5 months.
Since switching to formula, we have heard a few stories from friends about their colicky babies, and how formaula (this one particularly) helped them as well. I cried myself to sleep the first night we fed Andy formual and he was happy. I had a feeling that taking him off the boob would help him out, and I didn't want to give up breastfeeding. But after listening to him scream all day when we re-introduced the boob, and watching him struggle to pass gas, as he turned red and cried for hours was not worth it. I am sacrificing a really big thing here - I didn't get to breastfeed Owen either, and I thought I would get to breastfeed Andy longer than just one month. But it isn't meant to be. So I am done. And I am OK with that. Andy is a happy baby now (he even is smiling now and it just melts my heart!). I am sad for what I had to give up, but I would give up so much more to make sure my babies aren't in pain.
If anyone out there is struggling with a colicky baby, I suggest trying Similac Alimentium. It has worked wonders inour house!
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Andy's 1 month photo with the bear
Every month until he was 18 months old, Owen had his picture taken with this bear. Now it is Andy's turn!Thursday, July 24, 2008
From happy to mad in 2 seconds flat
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Andy has colic. He is a terribly cranky brute, and if he is awake he is screaming. It has been really hard on all of us. We are sleep depreived and that makes it all worse of course.
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Thank goodness Andy loves the sling (and Ijust got a really good one), becasue he doesn't like the sing, bouncy seat, cuddle seat, or lying down. He is just such a fussy baby!Andy is 4 weeks old today. He
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weighs 10lbs 4oz, and is still wearing clothes that fit up to 8lbs. He is very long and lean! He has beautiful, full, pouty lips and really big hands and feet. Like his big brother Owen, I think Andy will be quite tall.But every night around 9am, Andy screams for 2-3 hours straight. Oddly enough, those are the house he would wake up and kick the crapout of me when he was inside the womb. He has terribly bad gas and these evening hours and when it is the worst (for some reason).
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Friday, July 18, 2008
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We finally got some sleep!
Last night was great! Andy ate at 9pm and then I had a nap, and then Andy fed at midnight, and then Gabe and I were in bed by 12:30. Both those feeds were really good (both sides and not a lot of gas). Andy woke up to eat at 3am and had another really good feed and then went straight back to sleep (maybe 10 minutes of walking and rocking), and then Andy slept until 7:50! I actually went into his room to wake him up to eat next! I heard him squawk once at 4am, and once again at 7, but he didn't wake up, so I stayed in bed. It was a fantastic night!
Thursday, July 17, 2008
4oz poop!
We decided to weigh Andy on the baby scale and it said he was 10lbs. I found that hard to believe as he was only 9lbs 2oz less than a week ago (on Monday the 14th), but then we noticed he had had a huge poop (which came out onto his clothes, and on Papa's shirt too, so we weighed him again. He weighs 9lbs 6oz – the poop was 4oz!
Monday, July 14, 2008
"9lbs, 2oz... eyes of blue..."
Andy is now 9lbs 2oz. He is a ferocious eater and we are nowhere close to a sleep schedule yet.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
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Puppy dog eyes
Andy has the most beautiful eyes. They are puppy dog eyes. He will be able to use them, and his gorgeous little mouth with his pouty lips, to get whatever he wants out of Grandma and Grandpa later in life. And he'll be a babe-magnet... I can tell. :)
Monday, July 7, 2008
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Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Brothers
Brothers are a wonderful thing. At least that is what Owen thinks. He is just nuts about his new little brother Andy. And I'm sure Andy will be just as crazy about Owen as soon as he figures out how great he is too.Andy is so tiny - especially compared to Owen (and Owen's
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
The activities of day five...
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We had a pretty busy day today. First, your Papa, you, and me all went to the Health Clinic where you were weighed (7lbs 11 oz). Then we went to your Papa's work to show you off. Then, after a few hours of being alone (just you and me) which was soooo nice (we got to do a photo shoot!), we all went to the Jordan's house for a Canada Day party, and you met a bunch of people from Church and were 'named'.Your chosen saints name is David the Prophet (King David)..jpg)
During Andy's photo shoot, he peed on himself. Well, it was before the shoot actually. I was changing his bum and didn't get the new diaper on in time and Andy peed all over his face, in his mouth,. On the couch and floor – pretty much everywhere! So I undressed him, changed his bum properly, and wiped him down. And seeing as he was then naked, awake, and fairly happy (he didn't seem to mind peeing on himself at all), I decided it was the perfect time for a photo shoot! And he was happy to let me take a hundred pics or so – what a great little model he is!
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