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This summary covers the 4th week of Spear's life, from Friday Dec 22nd through Thursday Dec 28th. He was 3 weeks old during this week! Feeding: I wanted to take the time to go through how we feed Spear. Breastfeeding and bottle feeding are two totally different games! As a former exclusively breastfeeding mama I'd always heard how easy formula feeding can be and my mission was to make this experience truly as easy as possible. Why complicate it if I don't have to? So I keep it simple! We use Nursery Water at room temperature and store it in a big jug on the counter so it's easy to make bottles. We use Evenflo bottles and have plenty of them to make it so we don't have to wash them right after each feeding (currently using medium flow nipples). They only have three pieces to clean...the actual bottle, the nipple and the ring. Easy! I keep a Boon Drying Rack on the counter with the flower and tree accessories to make it easy to dry all the parts to the bot...
This is the summary of Spear's 3rd week of life. From Dec 15th through Dec 21st (He was 2 weeks old during this week). This was also our first week HOME!!! Yay! Feeding: I figured the ability to use the Medela bottles wouldn't last forever, and this was the week where a change had to happen. He was taking AGES to eat. On the 19th he took 90 minutes in the middle of the night and I was SO over that!!! I looked into options and realized that Medela bottles are made for breastfed babies and that their flow of nipples were just slower than other bottle types. Even the quickest flow of Medela nipples wasn't really all that "quick" so it was time for a bottle switch up!
This post covers Spear's second week of life ( Dec 8th - Thur Dec 14th...but since a big event occurred on the 15th I went ahead and extended this post through that day!). He was 1 week old during this week! We were also in Florida this week for the second week of our ICPC stay. This week, though, was MUCH less hectic than the week prior and for that I'm SO thankful. While it was lonely on my own for most of the week, it was also such a wonderful opportunity to truly relax, get in a good rhythm and routine, and BOND with my son. I'm very thankful for this special time we had together. It wasn't easy, but it was worth it! Feeding: This week I shifted from 2 oz bottles to feeding him 3-4 oz per feeding. I had a good stash of breastmilk with me and my goal is to do two breastmilk feedings a day until he's 6 months old then 1 a day until a year old if I'm able to have enough milk (got any to donate? email me at journeyofphood@gmail.com our family has been SO bl...
