This is going to be short b/c I've still got a million things to do before bed and with Adam gone this week and Morgan up with gas last night (besides her faithful feeding), I'm D.O.G. tired. So real quick, here goes:
Morgan officially had her first "cereal" yesterday. I write it as "cereal" b/c really it's not. It's flakes of some sort that dissolve into milk/formula (for those of you who don't know. Adam had no idea - he thought they'd be eating cheerios together). Anyway, we tried just some formula on a spoon two days prior just to see how she'd do with a "foreign object" in her mouth and it went relatively well. So last night I videotaped Morgan's first cereal b/c Adam's out of town T-Th this week and it went well too! She was a bit tired so at the end she got fussy but she did ok. Then last night Morgan was up at 11:30 (I initially thought the clock said 1:30...so disappointed) b/c of some serious gas and was up for 45 minutes...then again at 1:30 for feeding...I was really worried that we'd be up every other hour without Adam here...but that was it besides one nuk plug later on. Back to cereal...Mary (sitter) suggested giving Morgan cereal with breastmilk tonight to see if that helps her gas issues so I put 1/2 ounce of breastmilk together with some cereal and it went better. She still spit some out b/c her tongue doesn't know how to work things yet, but it went better. Then we had some down time where we played and I just had a feeling that Morgan was still hungry...so I gave her another bit of the same - 1/2 ounce of breastmilk and *slightly* more cereal in it...and she ate really well - and ALL of it. Fast. She also dipped WAY into her frozen stash at daycare and had (from what I figured) about 13 oz of milk at daycare today. Woah! Usually she has 12 at the MOST...hungry monkey. Her 4-month well check is Monday...can't WAIT to see where she is in terms of height/weight. She's getting SO big and long!
On a less positive note...the past two days have been KILLER for my milk supply. :-( I'm quite sad about this. I usually can count on anywhere from 9.5-11oz of milk from pumping at work. This is perfect for 2 bottles and a little left over for dream feeds, etc...and it's gone. I've gotten 7 oz both yesterday and today and that's even after some serious wait time b/w pumpings. I don't know. I am going to keep going b/c I want her to have at least 1/2 and 1/2 as long as we can...but if my supply is going to tank like this then I guess it will end sooner rather than later. Not the original plan...but I'm also not willing to kill myself to make it better. I wish I was strong enough to do that though. I know I'm not.
Ok, now that it's WAY later than I had hoped it would be, I'm going to go put diapers back together, pack Morgan's bag, and try super hard not to think about the work I should have done tonight instead of get ready for tomorrow. Ugh. But at least Morgan's doing well!! Will post pictures soon...but not during "single mom" week.
The Schmidt Family Grows: Adam, Liss, Morgan, Hadley, Maddie, & Jessie
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