nursing

Josiah has decided he will not be taking milk from a bottle anymore. This has happened three separate times now. First for Chris, then my mother-in-law. I thought, secretly, that they were just not doing something right. Yesterday I was proven wrong. My friend, Amy, was over watching the kids and Josiah did the same for her. She tried for 20 minutes, then I tried, then I tried putting it in a sippy, then putting it in a different kind of sippy. It was all to no avail, and more dishes were added to my already full sink!

This behavior is a little perplexing to me, especially since he's had no problem taking bottles as recent has 2 weeks ago! It was nice to be able to go out for the evening and not worry about how the little guy (and the one watching him) was getting along. I don't know how this will effect our already very few date nights. I like our date nights. Perhaps we'll just have to modify them for awhile.

While I'm on the subject of nursing, Josiah likes to nurse. Elizabeth was a very different baby. I used to joke that she didn't care HOW she got fed. Nursing, bottle, sippy cup - I probably could have fed her intravenously and she would have been happy. The girl just liked to eat (and still does). Of course it was a good thing that she wasn't picky because after finding out I was pregnant with Josiah, when she was almost 9 months old, my milk supply dried up and she was completely weaned at 10 months of age. Josiah would probably be VERY upset if I suddenly stopped producing as much. Fortunately that's not the issue . . . there is an issue with his teeth though. I did not know that having a baby with teeth hurts when you are feeding them - even if he's not biting down. Elizabeth only had her bottom two teeth the whole time I was nursing. She got the top two at 11 months. Josiah has his bottom two teeth, one of his top teeth and the other one just poked through today. I'm really hoping it will get better!