New Nips

"Ok, I'm heading out to get some new nipples. I'll be back in a little bit," mom yells over her shoulder, rushing out the door.

If you're reading this looking back later in the 21st century, this isn't referring to actually going out to get some lab-grown nipples for moms. We're a little more primitive back here.

Anyway, let me explain.

There was a couple day stretch there where LS was giving dad a pretty hard time.

In an effort to give mom a good stretch of sleep, not only did dad stay up until the 3am feeding for LS as usual, but also gave her a bottle at that time to give mom an extra break.

But I suppose LS didn't feel like she had signed up for that part of the bargain, and would much prefer the real thing. At any rate, the bottle was ready and waiting at 2am when LS started to "pip" some in her sleep - a usual precursor to full-on waking up.

As it turned out, she waited until 4am to wake up and proclaim herself famished. No worries, the bottle was ready.

If you count the feeding as successful based merely on the ingestion of a sufficient amount of milk, then it was. But you have to ignore all the screaming that happened during the hour-long feeding as well.

There were a couple 3 minute bursts of pure nursing in there, but the balance of it was spent crying and screaming. And not only dad - LS too.

LS would scream while trying to refuse the bottle. Shaking here head, sticking her tongue out, squinching here eyes - the whole deal. After finally drinking some, she then made good fun of screaming while being burped. Good times. Good times.

Of course, once the eating is done - then comes the changing. Never a particular fan of this activity, LS went for the trifecta and screamed through that as well. As I remember, she did finally calm down after the changing was done. And, luckily, she did go back to sleep pretty well. Tired out from all the screaming no doubt.

Later the next morning, it seemed LS was pretty contented after a feeding natural-style, so mom offered LS up to dad to cuddle with in bed before getting up. It lasted about 3 minutes, and then LS was back to screaming.

It seems dad had picked up a midas touch with LS (except replacing tears for gold). In this case, LS was then off to the down-stairs and playing for about an hour - so the fact was that she just wasn't up to sleeping at that particular time.

Mom had a theory that maybe LS was just growing not to like the nipples that we have for the bottles. She thought maybe an alternative type would do the trick.

Which brings us up to the beginning of this story.

It turned out to be a good hypothesis. With a change of nipples for the bottle, a feeding with LS this morning went much more smoothly.

Whew!

In other news - LS has a checkup with the Doctor later this week - so we'll be getting another long-awaited official set of stats. Recent unofficial weighings point to 10+ lbs, but we eagerly await the official stats.