Claire took a bottle today like a champ! A medium flow nipple (thanks for the advice, Corrie!) plus her hunger resulted in a record bottle feeding! Woo-hoo! Slow-flow nipples, say goodbye!
The other item: thumbsucking. Claire's always been one to suck on her clenched fist. It's been one of the early cues we used to feed her before the hungry freak out (you know the one ... where you can't pull your boob out fast enough?), and this week she's also taken to sucking on her fist just when she wants to suck and the pacifier doesn't work. Today, though, I heard "suck, suck, suck, slurp, slurp, slurp". I look over my shoulder, and Claire had discovered her thumb with her mouth which resulted in a moment of "uh, oh -- thumb or paci? thumb or paci?! thumb or paci?!" and baby book literature running through my head. Luckily, she managed to gag herself with it first, so decision averted. But the question remains: thumb or paci? I've always heard you can take away the paci but not the thumb, but then it's me who gets up every 15-20 minutes at night to stick that thing back in. Hmmm ... another adventure unfolds.
UPDATE (10:00pm) -- James successfully put Claire down after the fabulous feeding at 8:00pm. She slept until 9:30pm when she awoke and didn't want anything but a boob to suck (which she had to test repeatedly to verify it was a real boob). Ah, well ... baby steps.
UPDATE (4:30am) -- Okay, so now *I* have nipple confusion. Claire is VERY angry at the pacifier, is mad at her own hand, and hardly trusts my boob right now. Not to mention cranky and unwilling to sleep in her bassinet. But I'm sticking to it ... medium flow nipples and trying the bassinet first it is! Maybe we'll skip a bottle today though and sleep cuddling instead. :D
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Yeah! I am glad it worked. The paci vs. thumb thing may work itself out. She might start with the paci and then go to the thumb when it falls out keeping you from getting up. That would be in a perfect world.
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