The last few weeks...

What we've been up to...

Well, it's basically been focused on Jayna's weight. To catch you up, she hasn't been gaining weight... So, finally on 9/25 (weighing in at 8.8lbs), we met with an Occupational Therapist to do an evaluation on her sucking. Drumroll people... she's bad at it. Apparently her mouth muscles need some work, so we've been doing some exercises to strengthen them while supplementing with bottles. We noticed an immediate improvement as she's never been able to hold in a pacifier and can finally do it (small victories). And to think we just assumed that she didn't like them...

So, we did this plan (exercises, bottles, etc.) through the weekend and went to the pediatrician on Monday (9/28) and she weighed in at 9lbs!!! Yay weight gain!

2 month weigh in stats (these were done on 9/28, so 5 days late). She's 9lbs (10th percentile), is 22.5 inches tall (60th percentile) and has a huge head - can't remember how big, but it's 75th percentile... not sure what this means. and since she's so huge (9lbs), i no longer have to go in for weight checks!!!

She got 2 shots and frankly she was a champ. She screamed for about 3 seconds and then we fed her and she was fine. Completely fine. I did give her 1 dose of tylenol before the shot, but really I should have given it to Oliver who was more upset than she was. Come on people - it's a shot!

Here we are another week later and still trucking through breastfeeding. I'm still threatening to quit everyday, although it seems that my milk supply may quit on me first. I'm getting crazy clogs since we've been giving her bottles and am not really able to pump them out. On top of that, I think I've gotten thrush which is adding in shooting pains to the mix... Have I mentioned that I hate breastfeeding? My new goal is October 23rd - 3 months. And for all of you people judging me, I've done everything humanly possible to keep going at this... if you have any suggestions of how I can make this better, please let me know... Maybe I'll get some advice tomorrow in my breastfeeding support group. Yup, I go to one...