With a snoremonkey balanced on my shoulder...

It's time for a lightning fast update.

The buggy works! The Upchucky Kid was very (as the midwife would say) "unsettled" this avo, so we popped him in his buggy and went off to feed the pigs, etc.

(We did NOT threaten to feed the baby to the pigs, and shame on you for thinking that! LOL)

Anyhoo, by the time we got back, kidlet was fast asleep. He's since startled/woken a couple of times with a howl of tummy pain (toldya ya shoulda burped more!) but is fairly easily cuddled back to sleep. Right now he's over my shoulder, snorking in his sleep.

Here's the bit I had to log on to brag about:

How many (nearly) six week old kids do YOU know who, when feeding stops momentarily to burp them, turn their heads and then try to twist their torso's torwards the parked bottle, and actually reach for it, howling in frustration?

Six months, yeah sure. But six weeks????

Didn't just do it once, either. What can I say, he knows what he wants and when he wants it ;-)

Btw, yes we're still breastfeeding, but we discovered Mr Impatient won't strip the breast out completely, thus kept only drinking the "quencher" and foremilk, missing the hind milk completely. As the quencher is high in lactose, this helped contribute to the tummy aches and frequent feeds (which meant a higher proportion of lactose, and so on..)

But if I "milk out" at least four times a day, the nicely shaken bottle contains all three types of milk, so kidlet gets a balanced diet.

It's all a learning curve. Braeden gets Mummymilkbar from 7am to 8pm, then formula the rest of the time. He sleeps better, which means I sleep better, and even if I'm too tired/busy/slack to eat properly every meal, at least he's guaranteed to get the bases covered with the formula.

The electric pump didn't fit me (hurt me actually) but the one the midwife lent me (manual) is absolutely brilliant, so I bought one from Trade Me. Yep so the RSI is suffering for the manual pumping, but the milk is flowing, I'm not sore, and baby is getting fed. It's all good :-)