Life with babies is ever changing, ever day they look a little bit different, get a little bit sweeter, smile more, laugh more and it's wonderfull, but, they are also some not so sweet things. These things include trial and error with nap times, trial and error with bed times, getting your baby enough food because you don't make enough milk, painfull gas and so on. Obviously I'm speaking from my own experience, which, to say the least has given me quite a variaty to hurdles to jump but many mountian top joyful experiences as well.
Eating has been a big thing right from the beginning, for him and for me. I don't make what he needs which has been tromendously hard to deal with but after a few dozen breakdowns over a can of fomula I've mostly come to accept the fact that this is the way it has to be, beside it's not about what I need, it's about what he needs and he needs food so he can grow and if that food is formula then that is what we have to do.
Anyways, so Isaiah is a 1/4 feed breast milk and 3/4 formula. We use a Hypoallergenic formula because he didn't react well to some on the other stuff. I thought all was good but he still seemed to have some really bad episodes through out the day which I assumed made him a colicky baby because it fell under so many of the symptoms. There's no explination for why babies are colicky and to go along with that no real answer to fix it, basically you're suppose to accept that you might not beable to make it go away but try and make baby comfortable. o.k. I tried that, for the record it doesn't make it any easier on mom knowing you might not be able to fix it and a few dozen breakdowns more occured. 3 days ago we had a horibble day, and when I say horrible I mean capital letters HORRIBLE, I was beside myself I didn't know what to do but we survived the day..barely, got him to bed ( we have been blessed with a great night time sleeper, once we get him to sleep that is) I crashed and that was the end of that. 6 am came when I was awakened by the "I'm hungry cry ". I sat there feeding him thinking/praying that this day would be better, I knew he'd go back down for a few more hrs so I debated whether to just stay up and get some things done incase it's another bad day but quickly told myself not to be stupid. After I put him back down I went to put the formula in the fridge and there it was, the milk jug and it hit me. I had a milk allergy as a baby, maybe he does too. So that day I stayed away from the moooo and guess what, he was a completely different baby, happy for more then an hour, napping, smiling. Thank you Jesus <3 I eat a lot lot of dairy and just that bit that he got from my 1/4 breast milk was making him so unhappy an in pain. SOOOOO glad we got that figured out, now to figure out what I'm suppose to eat with out my favorite food group, I never realized just how much of our food has dairy in it that you'd never even think of. Oh well all that matters is my baby is so happy now which means so am I :)
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Dom, I feel for you and your feeding difficulties. I had tons of problems with Anika, and finally gave up completely at 9 months. And felt guilty and frustrated about it. I wish breastfeeding would just work out for every mother that wanted it to. It sounds like you're making peace with it; that's great! Your baby is healthy; that matters way more than how he's getting his food.
I'm thinking about you!
P.S. (And I know you're probably getting advice from everybody so please do what you want with this info) When I was having trouble, I contacted a La Leche League consultant. She was wonderful! She had lots of ideas to increase supply, and was more than willing to come out to my house or talk on the phone whenever I had questions.
awe Dom, that must have been so frustrating! I'm really glad you figured it out. Totally praying for you and Isaiah every time I think of you!
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