Friday, January 11, 2008

We are going to have our hands full

Well after our visit yesterday with Nancy we have decided that most of Brie's feeding problems are behavioral. Nancy was trying to feed her and Brie kept throwing the food on the floor. Nancy told Brie no and Brie looked at her smiled and proceeded to throw the food on the floor. Nancy said she has not seen a baby Brie's age do this. So we are persevering and trying to change the behavior. Nancy's last comments when we were leaving on Thursday were to stop sleep feeding her. If she falls asleep and has not eaten let her go. Well today I have done just that. After a few hours she was fussing and actually willing to take a bottle awake. Now it does take me walking her to get her calm to take it, but she actually started every bottle awake today. She did fall asleep midway through all of them, but it is a start. Hopefully this will teach her what hungry and full feels like. Solids are another story. She will take a few bites of anything crunchy and seems to really love veggie sticks, but anything mussy or on a spoon and she wants nothing to do with it.
Her weight tonight was 15 lbs 12 oz so no gain this week, but we have been giving her less formula in an effort to increase her solid intake. She has been averaging about 20 oz per day. So it is not enough to gain weight, but she is not losing. Hopefully she will start eating solids better and we can move away from the formula.

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